Third Place Books welcomes Josh Cook of Porter Square Books to their virtual event series, for a conversation about his new collection of essays, The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century on September 11 starting at 4pm. Third Place’s Author Events Manager Spencer Ruchti will lead a conversation with Cook about reading (and selling) literature in translation, progressive bookselling, and the historic place of bookstores as community “third places.” This Zoom talk is free and registration available at thirdplacebooks.com.

Also in September is Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association’s annual Tradeshow. This year, the gathering of booksellers, librarians, and publishers takes place at Holiday Inn Portland on the Columbia Riverfront, September 19 through 21. Organizers say that the parties will actually begin on Monday, September 18, with publisher Tin House hosting an open house in their Portland office home. There’s also Monday plans for “a mega-suite Scholastictastic House Party happy hour, and later that evening the sophisticated suite stylings of CBS/GS with a we don’t care it’s Monday Friday Night Cocktails vibe,” according to their recent newsletter

To find out more, check pnba.org/tradeshow.html.