Panel

Join Porter Square Books in welcoming crime novelists Christopher Bollen and Hallie Ephron in conversation with moderator Chris Castellani!

Join Porter Square Books to welcome our 2020 Writers in Residence Justin Chen and Sacha Lamb as they read selections from their works in progress!

Please join Porter Square Books in welcoming mystery writers Clea Simon, Joanna Schaffhausen, Kate Flora, and Julie Hennrikus (aka Julia Henry or Julianne Holmes) for a panel event where a mystery story will be written before your eyes. But the authors won’t be the ones making the mystery – you will!

Porter Square Books is pleased to bring you the first Tell-All Boston event of 2020, with special guest Calvin Hennick and featured readers Sari Boren, Angie Chatman, Doris Iarovici and Amy Yelin!

Join Porter Square Books for a special live podcast taping with NovelClass, featuring NovelClass's Dave Pezza, Writer's Bone host Daniel Ford, and Porter Square Books' own booksellers Josh Cook and Kate Mikell, discussing Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize.

Join Porter Square Books for a panel reading with creators of First Second's Science Comics series! Creators Zack Giallongo, and Alex Graudins, Jason Viola, and Maris Wicks will present their respective comics and discuss the series and process.

CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT’S BEING DONE, WHAT YOU CAN DO

Join novelists Randy Susan Meyers, M.J. Rose & B.A. Shapiro as they explore why lying comes to them with such ease—is it in their characters, or did they have to learn this skill of dissimulation?

Please join us to celebrate the graduates of GrubStreet's first Essay Incubator, taught by local author Grace Talusan (The Body Papers)! They'll read their creative nonfiction on topics as diverse as sexuality, personal heroes, an ancestral book, a facial expression, love, and the challenges of growing up.

Join us for our monthly panel featuring local authors--this month featuring "honorary locals" with ties to the area! Joining us will be Nicholas Mancusi for his debut novel A Philosophy of Ruin, Cathryn J. Prince for her biographical work, Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman, and Joseph Menn with his exploration of the origins of hacktivism in Cult Of The Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World.