Blogs

The deadline to apply for the 2019 Writers in Residency Program has now passed. We will announce the selections on October 31.

We have added a new feature to our website: Online bundles!

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust is the 2017 Young Readers Porter Square Book of the Year, and will be 20% off for the rest of the year!

Independent Bookstore day is Saturday April 28th. We’re still planning the fun so stay tuned for more information about the day’s events. Here are the IBD exclusives that will be available at Porter Square Books while supplies last.

Sixteen-year-old Mina's mother is dead and her father--a magician who cut out her heart and replaced it with one made of glass--is cruel. When the two move to Whitespring Castle, Mina plans her escape in the arms of the king. She does not love him, but he is good and kind.

There was a moment near the end (that I won’t spoil for you) when I realized just how special In the Distance is, how much Diaz had played with our expectations, stretched the norms of storytelling, and created something totally unique. It’s a moment when (OK, a tiny spoiler) essentially nothing happens, but the way that nothing happens shows the real depth of Diaz’s novel.

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When Margot runs up some very unauthorized charges on her dad's credit card

she has to spend her summer working in his Bronx grocery store

instead of in the Hamptons with her private school friends.

Once again, we did a cycle story or exquisite corpse with as many of the authors who read at PSB as we could wrangle. The authors were only allowed to see the last entry and had an inch and a half of space to write what happens next. Here is the result.  

The audience had all left and the stock for the store had been signed. It was a great event and The Author was looking forward to a quiet night before the next leg of the tour. Unfortunately for The Author, the parking lot outside of Porter Square Books was in utter chaos.