Porter Square Books Staff Picks: March 2022

Porter Square Books: Boston Edition, located on the first floor of GrubStreet's Center for Creative Writing, is open and ready to fulfill all of your book-browsing desires! Staff Picks are 20% off, so you can add to your TBR pile guilt-free. Whether you want to read about cottagecore witches, what it means to be a person of color in America during a pandemic, or Romeo and Juliet retold (in the 1920s, in Shanghai), PSB has a pick for you. We're located on the southeast side of 50 Liberty, facing the Marina and the ICA. …
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Lit Boston: What's Happening in March?

In the March 2022 edition of "Best of Boston," we bring you our top Boston lit events this month, most taking place virtually. See below for our list of local literary happenings.
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Porter Square Books Staff Picks: February 2022

Porter Square Books: Boston Edition, located on the first floor of GrubStreet's Center for Creative Writing, is open and ready to fulfill all of your book-browsing desires! Staff Picks are 20% off, so you can add to your TBR pile guilt-free. Whether you want to read about coping with burnout, one-eyed woodsmen, or feral mothers and owl-babies, PSB has a pick for you. We're located on the southeast side of 50 Liberty, facing the Marina and the ICA. Come visit!
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Lit Boston: What's Happening in February?

In the February 2022 edition of "Best of Boston," we bring you our top Boston lit events this month, most taking place virtually. See below for our list of local literary happenings.
Laura Sebastian with Dana Schwartz: Castles in Their Bones
Tuesday, February 1st at 6:00 PM ET | Event Fee: $0 - $45
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Do Authors Really Need to be a "Brand"?

When I teach workshops on writing and/or publishing, I often start out by asking writers to work on the "one-liner" for their projects, whether fiction, nonfiction, or collections. I encourage them to try winnowing it down to just one line — and no, that single line can't comprise 200 words.
Usually someone will ask, sometimes a little aggressively, "Why?" The subtext is perfectly reasonable: their book or collection is too complex to be expressed in one line
Katrin Schumann