Metro Boston Bookstore Crawl 2025 Event Highlights Indie Book Shops

Emma Friedman

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's just like at the airport, go to a new
place and get a new stamp in the passport, except
this passport only cares about bookstore.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
So this was just kind of an event to try
to get people to know how many bookstores there are
in the Boston area.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
It's all a part of the Metro Boston Indie Bookstore
Crawl this month. Catherine Izzarro, the general manager at Porter
Square Books, tells me they're participating along with twenty other bookstores.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
There's some in every neighborhood, even just in Boston. There's
like two in the Seaport, there's some in Beacon.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Hell, the more bookstores you go to on the list,
the more stamps you get, so you can earn prizes
on Independent Bookstore Day at the end of the month.
So far, it's been just over two weeks and Porter
Square Books is already out of the four hundred passports
they printed.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I know several other bookstores across the list are out
of passports, and many bookstores were actually reprinting over one thousand.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
More in Cambridge. Emma Friedman WBZ, Boston's news radio