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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston

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Fiercely independent bookstore in Cambridge and Boston, MA https://linktr.ee/portersqbooks

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Authors Against Book Bans@authorsabb.bsky.social · 6h ago

Join us and a coalition of other right to read groups tomorrow at 4PM for our Show Up, Speak Up Virtual Telethon! I mean, THE Judy Blume will be there & you don't want to disappoint her, right? Sign up here:

Join a star-studded lineup of authors and influencers to champion the freedom to read. Sign up now!

Join a virtual variety show featuring a star-studded lineup of freedom to read champions celebrating books, authors, and readers. We’ll SHOW UP by making a plan to vote, then SPEAK UP by calling our r...

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · 13h ago

Hey #BookSky and #Horror fans! Tomorrow is the last day to get the sweet early bird ticket to our Bloody Book Bash! Early bird gets a shirt, free entry, raffle ticket, coupon!

TICKETED: THIRD ANNUAL BLOODY BOOK BASH AT BOSTON EDITION

Are you a fan of spooky reads? Scary movies? Are you someone who enjoys a good fright? Then join us on Saturday, October 24th for our third annual Bloody Book Bash at our Seaport location! Enjoy Early Bird Savings now until 9/24 We're DYING to have you!

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · 2d ago

We're thrilled to be working with Grace Lin again for her new picture book! The Little Stone Buddha comes out on October 6 and you can preorder a signed copy (and get a fancy sticker) from us now! portersquarebooks.com/book/9780316...

The Little Stone Buddha (Signed)

A gorgeous picture book about a community coming together to build something beautiful, from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Grace Lin.

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · 2d ago

Time, as they say, marches on, which means we're getting closer to Boston Edition's 5th Anniversary party! A sale, a raffle, some drinks, a party! Saturday October 10th! All the info & to RSVP:

PSB: Boston Edition's 5-Year Anniversary Party!

Porter Square Books: Boston Edition is celebrating 5 years of business in the Seaport, and we’re inviting you to come and join the party! There will be plenty of fun things to do, including:

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Marty Cahill@mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 5d ago

What's a book you love with all your goddamn heart that you believe did NOT get the love and attention it's due? I'll go first, and it's abso-LUT-ely THE CITY IN GLASS by Nghi Vo. There are moments from that book that live in my blood and wake me from the dark.

Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · 3d ago

Friends in Massachusetts! We've got a lot of issues on this year's ballot BUT we also have the League of Women Voters to help us make sense of it all next Sunday

Be the Change Workshop: Your Voice is Your Vote: Navigating the 2026 Midterm Ballot with The League of Women Voters of Massachusetts

Porter Square Books' September Be the Change event will be a "Your Voice is Your Vote" workshop led by The League of Women Voters of Massachusetts.

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · 5d ago

Don't get ballot shock on election day! We're hosting a Navigating the Ballot workshop from the League of Women Voters on Sunday, September 24 at 5PM

Be the Change Workshop: Your Voice is Your Vote: Navigating the 2026 Midterm Ballot with The League of Women Voters of Massachusetts

Porter Square Books' September Be the Change event will be a "Your Voice is Your Vote" workshop led by The League of Women Voters of Massachusetts.

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · 5d ago

I know we kinda actually need @timnitgebru.blacksky.app book Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI & the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist, like, now. Like, yesterday. But, alas, that's now how publishing works. BUT you CAN preorder a signed copy from us here:

Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist (Signed)

Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—delivering an inspiring vision for better, human-centered, equitable technology.

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Polly Farquhar@pollyf.bsky.social · 6d ago

I often think of this as "I will travel [metaphorically] to meet this book." (And as a writer for kids, I tend to flip it--I'm going to travel out to meet my reader.) But generous is a much better + easier way to put it!

Joel Pinckney@jpinckney.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is the message: yes, shop early, but also, be ready and willing to trust the expertise of booksellers. There's a way of shopping at bookstores that acts as if the booksellers are just there to stock the shelves with product. I guarantee you, bookselling is not that kind of job.

Hannah Harlow@hhharlow.bsky.social · 7d ago

Consumers, please start your holiday shopping early. Don’t get too attached to any one title. Let booksellers help you find something in stock that will delight and surprise. We will have a ton of stock, just maybe not that one title no one can get. There will be one (probs more); what will it be?

Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · 7d ago

As one of the bookstores of #BlueSky it is our joyful responsibility to tell you the brilliant poetry collection by Jake SKEETS is on the National Book Award for Poetry Long List! (Seriously, though, the book is brilliant & you should read it)

Horses: Poems

"Beauty is possible even when it appears impossible. An astounding book." --Joy Harjo, author of Washing My Mother's Body Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets's highly anticipated second collection patiently tracks the impacts of climate change on the land and its myriad inhabitants. "For now, go out and dream of joy, we know the labor of feeling it." With Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, Jake Skeets emerged as a visionary new literary voice, offering readers a queer, Indigenous poetics inextricable from a connection to land. With Horses, Skeets tracks the shifting land of the Navajo Nation: What changes and what remains the same in a place that has been inhabited for thousands of years? In poems employing numbers significant to Din thought and lifeway, Skeets explores the reclamation of land, imagination, and language--a world beyond environmental apocalypse, where joy is possible and where transformation is embraced over erasure. Arranged as a quartet, Horses begins with a meditation on two hundred horses found dead, mired in mud that had once been a stock pond on Navajo land in Arizona. What was once a source of life had become a death trap for a herd living on the edge of survival. From here, Skeets's poems radiate outward, tracing the body and its relationship to a landscape marked by geologic time and the fragile, eroding moments of the present. Fiercely observant, brilliantly constructed, and hauntingly incisive, Horses evokes both the end of a world and a new dawn emerging on the horizon.

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · 7d ago

We say some version of this just about every year but one of the absolute best ways to support your local indie bookstore is to do your holiday shopping in OCTOBER. (More context in Hannah's thread. Hi, Hannah!) #BookSky

Hannah Harlow@hhharlow.bsky.social · 7d ago

Consumers, please start your holiday shopping early. Don’t get too attached to any one title. Let booksellers help you find something in stock that will delight and surprise. We will have a ton of stock, just maybe not that one title no one can get. There will be one (probs more); what will it be?

Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · last wk.

Deep engagement with books is one of (maybe the) best ways to inoculate your mind against our (almost aggressively) toxic intellectual environment. So, we've been doing these micro-courses on BlueSky to help with that engagement. Look for the next one on Friday morning!!!

Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's been a hot minute since we promised a close reading micro-course on keeping a reading journal, but we've finally pulled it together! So if you've ever considered keeping a reading journal, uh, read on!

Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · last wk.

Early bird tickets for our 3rd Annual Bloody Book Bash are available now through 9/24! Entrance, t-shirt, raffle entry, $5 off a purchase at the party!

TICKETED: THIRD ANNUAL BLOODY BOOK BASH AT BOSTON EDITION

Are you a fan of spooky reads? Scary movies? Are you someone who enjoys a good fright? Then join us on Saturday, October 24th for our third annual Bloody Book Bash at our Seaport location! Enjoy Early Bird Savings now until 9/24 We're DYING to have you!

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@sandorfpassage.bsky.social · last wk.

Looking for weird, wild, and wonderful book recommendations? Then subscribe to @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social’s relaunched newsletter. And if anything piques your interest order it from @portersqbooks.bsky.social or another mighty independent bookstore. #booksky

Josh Cook@joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm relaunching my monthly recommendation newsletter on No Nazis No AI @Buttondown! I recommend 1 old book, 1 new book, 1 forthcoming book, & 1 book I haven't finished yet. (Get it? Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Forever). Subscribe below If you'd like a sample before committing...

Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · last wk.

Hey #BookSky! Come read a really cool book and talk about it with us! Help make a small press book a hit! #BlueSkyBookClub #AcidGreenVelvet is less a novel and more a seduction. A story of decay and decadence, family and betrayal, crime and capitalism...

BlueSky Book Club

Krilanovich's first novel in almost twenty years, focuses on Paulette, a life-long grifter who has wormed her way into the richest and most powerful household in the town, just as a swell of vagrants, con artists, and would be revolutionaries threaten to overthrow the social and economic order. Acid Green Velvet is a truly fecund novel filled with breathtaking images, brain-halting sentences, and lots of unanswered questions.

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · last wk.

PSB: Boston Edition is turning 5 this fall! Come celebrate on Saturday October 10 with a sale, the crowning of our new mascot, raffles, crafts, custom drinks from Travel Mug & more!

PSB: Boston Edition's 5-Year Anniversary Party!

Porter Square Books: Boston Edition is celebrating 5 years of business in the Seaport, and we’re inviting you to come and join the party! There will be plenty of fun things to do, including:

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · last wk.

Hey Massachusetts friends! We've got a beefy ballot this election year with a lot referendums & a lot to keep track of. It'll be easy to get overwhelmed, but, with help from The League of Women Voters, we got you

Be the Change Workshop: Your Voice is Your Vote: Navigating the 2026 Midterm Ballot with The League of Women Voters of Massachusetts

Porter Square Books' September Be the Change event will be a "Your Voice is Your Vote" workshop led by The League of Women Voters of Massachusetts.

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