Boston bookstore Porter Square Books launched a publication earlier this month, The Porter Square Review of Books, which will publish “weekly(ish)” book reviews of new releases across all genres for all ages. Nieman Lab reports that reviews will be written by booksellers and writers-in-residence, and be rounded up in a monthly newsletter. The team writes in an announcement, “The decline of books coverage in the media, including a dramatic decline in regular old book reviews, has been well documented. Even before the Washington Post shuttered their entire books section, readers had relatively few newspapers, journals, or media outlets to turn to […]
