Our Sci Fi/Fantasy book club meets tonight in Cambridge! Come hang out with some other nerds for a bit. We'll be discussing There Is No AntiMemetics Division!

This is a pretty good approach for how to make the time you spend on this platform worthwhile.

Just sent out a slate of recommendations for a Virtual Bookseller and just want to remind #BookSky that we love doing these for you: portersquarebooks.com/virtual-book...

IYCMI from a couple days ago. Here are some thoughts about social media, from years and years of doing it.

A perfect day filled with so many joys and little treats, if you ask me!

OK. But... .... ...no, really.

A perfect day!

A month ago @portersqbooks.bsky.social recommended “Crocosmia” to me because I was sick of dystopian novels & wanted a utopian novel. I bought it right away and finally got around to reading it — and it was good! Very idea rich and plot poor, but that’s the point. Thanks for the recommendation!

This is the way

This is the way. #booksky #reading #indiebooksellers #shopsmall #readoutside

Tell you what, if you come to Rough Draft, you'll not only get a recommendation *from me* but you can get your tasty beverage AND treat here too! If you come in today before 4ish and you cite this message, I'll even buy your beverage.

Our take is go to an indie bookstore, get a recommendation from a bookseller, & spend the rest of the afternoon reading outside, perhaps after acquiring a tasty beverage & treat from a local cafe.

Oh look, an excuse to tell you that Walt Whitman's brain ended up in a museum in England...where it was dropped on the ground by a custodian!

good morning, excited to be normal about books with all of you today

Yesterday I read “The Lesser Dead” in an afternoon/evening, enjoyed the book almost as much as I enjoyed giving a big chunk of a day over to book.

Happy Friday #BookSky! Just a reminder, this is the weekend you lose yourself in a book for several hours, returning to your physical presence in a kind of brain-ecstatic daze, for the first time in awhile. Thanks to the world, that's an almost revolutionary way to spend a couple of hours.

I love seeing when we can make social media work in positive ways. Especially fun to see it for the account of a bookstore I'm visiting next month for a book event!

A late post in a very good thread

We are just about (or have already) hit 40K followers on this site, which has inspired me to reflect a little bit on books & social media. I (Josh) have been doing bookish social media for Porter Square Books for...15 years and counting. (I think we started on Twitter in 2011.)...

Happy Friday! This weekend make sure the Little Free Libraries in your town are well stocked AND it'd probably be a good idea to put some of our HR7661 postcards while you're at it!

1st: Nothing wrong with putting a book down. You can always go back if you want to try again. Or don't! You'll never run out of good books. Like...The Anthropologists

Wouldn't be surprised if you've already read it, but The Blacktongue Thief is another, "Oh damn, this really hits" book

If you're up for going darker, you could do The Eyes Are the Best Part

It's not out yet, but will be soon...Kill All Wizards! First, read the description and then read the blurbs and who blurbs it on the right

Heyyyyy #booksky We're heading towards 40K followers on this website, so I'm working on a whole big thread considering, social media, books, & the world, but while I'm at it...who wants a recommendation? If so, share a book that someone else recommended to you & we'll give you a follow up!

Book haul from last night! Thank you, @portersqbooks.bsky.social !!! Having trouble copying on my phone, so titles in Alt-Text.

Won't have time for a more robust #WeirdBookWednesday post so I'm just going to remind you that Plastic Prism Void is one for the weirdos

I just think you deserve to treat yourself to a Reader Prom

These symposiums are a super fun way to celebrate & spread the word about authors who are important to you. If you're a Zambreno fan, you should submit even if you can't attend in person

TODAY! #Massachusetts @portersqbooks.bsky.social I am so excited to share SOUNDS LIKE TROUBLE Still time to register #booksky #writingcommunity

We're getting submissions for our Kate Zambreno symposium this fall! If you're a fan (whether you're a published author/critic/scholar or not) don't miss out on your chance to be a part of something special

If you're struggling to think of a gift for a bookish person in your life, may we recommend getting them a Your Own Private Bookstore? The next one that's available is Friday May 29

And while BlueSky and #BookSky are talking about all the ways you can learn about books here, can we just remind you that you can always get personalized recommendations from the PSB libromancers using our Virtual Bookseller

Hi Friends! The great @mollycrabapple.bsky.social is going to swing by on Saturday May 23 to sign copies of her absolutely essential new book Here Where We Live is Our Country AND she'll personalize orders! Let us know in the order comments if you'd like a signed copy & any message you'd like!

Seconding this! We're almost at 40K followers, which is WAY more than we had on Twitter. Hoping to mark that by sharing some thoughts about books & social media & such at some point as well.

We know you like books, we sure you're into helping out other readers, and, you're probably, like, cool with fun...right? Then you need to join us for Reader Prom!

LAST CHANCE! Zoom w/me, ask me anything, help diversify publishing! Bid now--auction ends at 9pm ET TONIGHT, May 11!! 👇👇👇

Probably a good day to recommend The Long Form. Briggs is brilliant, covering incredible narrative & conceptual distances in the few turns around the living room it takes to soothe her baby. It's quiet in some ways, explosive in others. #BookSky #MothersDay

Hafeez Lakhani chats with friend of the store Julia Glass about his new book Abundance, tonight at 7PM in Cambridge!

I'm off until Monday. It'd be damn cool to come back to see a whole bunch of you got this incredible book!

AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaa [inchoate squealing noises] LOOK BOOK IN WORLD

You can live in a world where this book is a smash fuckint hit

This week's weird book Josh talks about is Plastic, Prism, Void by Violet Allen! (@littlepuss.net) #booksky #weirdbookrecommendations #bookrecommendations

Tonight in Cambridge Porter Square Books is excited to welcome Sylvester Allen Jr. and Belle Boggs for the release of The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw! (Yes, they were supposed to be here a few months ago, but, well, it's tough out there kids) RSVPs very appreciated!

🗣️ TONIGHT! @madelinevosch.bsky.social is in town to chat about her memoir, UNDEAD, with @lgilmore.bsky.social at @portersqbooks.bsky.social. This is at the Cambridge location. There’s still time to RSVP before 7!

Today at 7PM in Cambridge! Porter Square Books is excited to welcome Madeline Vosch for the release of her new book, Undead: A Memoir of My Suicide. She'll be in conversation with Dr. Leigh Gilmore:

There's still time to register for the online American Inspiration event with Anna Quindlen. May 7 at 6PM. AND if you order Quindlen's book More Than Enough from us with the American Inspiration code, your copy will come with signed book plate!

The Your Own Private Bookstore for this Friday is booked, but we have one available on Friday May 29th! These are always a ton of fun and make for a great gift!

Shout out to everyone who is doing their best these days to shop small when they can, support their public library, and build community 💓 These actions add up, and do not go unnoticed! We are grateful for you!