New bookstore slated for Porter Square:

Our friends at misnthropicity report that the Dress Barn will become a new independent bookstore:

But replacing the Dress Barn in the Star Market shopping plaza is -- and I’m so excited I can barely get the words out -- Porter Square Books, with owners as close to rock stars as one can get in small book circles. The three managers of the Concord Bookshop, as well as former employees, have taken the 4,480 square feet of dowdy dresses and vowed to open it Oct. 1 with books, newspapers and cafe fare.
“Because of the area, we have to stay open until at least 9 p.m. every day, maybe later,” said managing director Dale Szczeblowski, also vice president of the New England Booksellers Association, to Bookselling This Week.