Panel

For Hourly Comics Day 2023, we invite you to grab your art supplies and head to your local Porter Square Books: Boston Edition (50 Liberty Dr. Boston, MA 02210)! We're hosting a panel of comic artists at 7pm on Wednesday, February 1, and you can stop by anytime from open to close (10am-8pm) to draw your hourlies from the comfort of a cozy bookstore by the sea(port).

Alfred Hitchcock famously insisted that all suspense requires a ticking clock. Regardless of genre, authors who want to thrill their audiences know they must harness the power of expectation, uncertainty, and nerve-wracking tension to keep readers turning the page.

Happy Indies First Day! Celebrate your local independent bookstore by attending a virtual panel where four of our fantastic booksellers will help you with your holiday shopping. Join us virtually on Crowdcast on Saturday, November 26 at 4pm and find a gift for every reader in your life!

A celebration of Dalkey Archive Press, featuring authors Ben Slotky and Curtis White, plus backlist recommendations from indie booksellers, including PSB's own Josh Cook!

Register to attend on Eventbrite!

It's October. It's approaching Halloween. It is, in other words, the perfect time to read all of the horror books on your To-Be-Read and to watch all of the horror movies on your watch list. 

It's increasingly common for authors to publicly talk about their relationship with fan work - how they got their start writing Star Trek fanfic, or work through writer's block with original work by playing with someone else's world, or experiment with form in a low-stakes setting. How can writing fanfic enrich, inform, complicate one's original work, and vice versa? Which writerly itches can each practice scratch? In what ways does each approach to writing challenge or relax the writer (and, indeed, the reader)?

Porter Square Books and the Cambridge LGBTQ+ Commission are delighted to present a virtual LGBTQ+ sci and fantasy rec panel! Join us on June 29 at 7pm on Crowdcast to hear from four of our booksellers and one commissioner on the titles they've been loving lately. 

Register on Crowdcast!

Porter Square Books is delighted to participate in Sourcebooks' new event series, BookLightEvents, for a virtual panel featuring authors Marie Benedict, Heather Webb, Kate Moore, and Katharine Gregorio and moderated by Mary O’Malley, Free-Range Virtual Bookseller at Large for Skylark Bookshop in Columbia, MO. This event will be free and open to all, hosted on a Zoom run by Sourcebooks. Be sure to register for your free ticket on Eventbrite! 

Get in the spirit of Valentine's Day with Porter Square Books as we welcome Dave Valdes, Sara Farizan, Haley Neil, and Nina Varela for a YA romance panel! This event will take place on Friday, February 11 at 7:00 PM virtually via Crowdcast. 

Join Porter Square Books for a virtual panel event featuring top cli-fi authors Alison Stine (Trashlands), Jeff VanderMeer (Hummingbird Salamander), and Joan He (The Ones We're Meant to Find)!