Writing in the bookstore, works about love, and celebrating comics

Writers in Residence at Porter Porter Square Books began its Writers in Residence program back in 2019, awarding nine-month residencies to two writers, one writing for adults and one for children, and applications are open now for the 2025 edition, running Feb. 1 to Oct. 31 of next year. Residents receive a 40 percent discount at both the Cambridge and Seaport locations; access to the office in Cambridge after 5 p.m. on weekdays and all day on the weekends; ample access to galleys and advance review copies; the chance to select some staff picks to promote the books they love. Residents are responsible for writing three book-related pieces for the store’s blog; doing three event introductions or in-conversation events with other authors; a “welcome reading” in February; being present for Independent Bookstore Day in April. Residents will be expected to spend at least five hours a week using the office, and if a book is published that was worked on at the residency, PSB will be the first choice for the launch. Writers must be 18+ and live full time in the greater Cambridge area. The bookstore will “give preference to writers from marginalized populations” and residents will be announced in October. Application deadline is Aug. 31. For full guidelines, more information, and to apply, visit portersquarebooks.com/porter-square-books-writers-residence-program . A pairing of poems and art Belmont-based poet David Daniel and New Hampshire-raised artist George Cochrane collaborated on a new book pairing poems and art and the result is an intimate, unexpected atmosphere of connection. “ What Love Is ” (Nirala) circles around what’s there and gone — the crow’s caw, the caught stare of a stranger, life — and in its acknowledgement of the fleeting, there is a melancholy, and wonder, too. “His nature calls him to say, All things / Are filled with their loss.” The pair shows scenes from the Cantab Lounge on Mass. Ave. outside Central Square in Cambridge, when the decision to head out into the night can be “a prayer for the love of strangers.” The unsaid lives below what’s said here, the unspeakable, the […]

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