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Josh Cook

Josh Cook
Josh Cook is is a bookseller at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has worked since 2004. He is also author of the critically acclaimed postmodern detective novel An Exaggerated Murder and his fiction, criticism, and poetry have appeared in numerous leading literary publications. He grew up in Lewiston, Maine and lives in Somerville, MA.


On the Bad Binary of “Good” and “Bad” Literature

Josh Cook on Taking Back the Idea of "Good Taste" from Cultural Authoritarians
August 23, 2023  By Josh Cook
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Why Everyone Should Read the Great Karen Tei Yamashita

Josh Cook on This Year’s Recipient of the National Book Foundations’s Literarian Award
September 17, 2021  By Josh Cook
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How Booksellers Were Complicit in the Resurgence of White Supremacy and the Rise of Donald Trump

Josh Cook Considers the Relationship Between Bookselling, Politics, and Free Speech
May 27, 2021  By Josh Cook
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Why it’s bad when a bookstore’s biggest competitor—Amazon—breaks a sales embargo.

September 4, 2019  By Josh Cook
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When a Bookseller Has to Sell His Own Book

"It's Right There. My Book is Right. Fucking. There."
June 25, 2015  By Josh Cook
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