Book Giveaways

Closing the Equity Gap: Creating Wealth and Fostering Justice in Startup Investing

An entrepreneur and a social activist remake the future of investing and business, offering a groundbreaking “win-win” roadmap for creating wealth and addressing inequalities by investing in groundbreaking tech companies that defy assumptions from Silicon Valley to Wall Street.

News & Opinion

Women's History Month: La Revo Books

By Jasmine Gonzalez

Porchlight Book Company is proud to be a woman-owned company. Here in Milwaukee, we’re also lucky to be in company with a growing number of fellow woman-owned bookstores. In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re proud to highlight these community change-makers.

Staff Picks

The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

By Jasmine Gonzalez

For how important teachers are in the development of our children, teaching remains one of the most under-resourced, underpaid, and underappreciated professions in the United States. This is what writer—and substitute teacher—Alexandra Robbins explores in her latest book, The Teachers.

ChangeThis

Demystifying Grief

By Colin Campbell

Most every society on earth has some form of public display of grief, some public ritual of mourning in which the griever shares their feelings of loss to their community. In order to process and integrate our incomprehensible loss, we need to share our pain, and have it be witnessed and acknowledged.

New Releases

New Releases | March 14, 2023

Book Giveaways

I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir

A riveting memoir by the former CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET), about the glamorous and ugly moments of being a high-powered Black woman executive in the entertainment industry.

News & Opinion

Women's History Month: Rooted MKE

By Jasmine Gonzalez

Porchlight Book Company is proud to be a woman-owned company. Here in Milwaukee, we’re also lucky to be in company with a growing number of fellow woman-owned bookstores. In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re proud to highlight these community change-makers.

Interviews

A Q&A with Johann Hari,
Author of Stolen Focus

By Johann Hari, Rebecca Schwartz

Johann Hari, the author of the 2022 Porchlight Business Book of the Year, recently responded to some questions from our Owner and CEO, Rebecca Schwartz. Here is their conversation.

ChangeThis

You're Not Bad With Money

By Scarlett Cochran

When you shift your perspective to see money not as good or bad but as a tool to build the life you want, it’s easier to make decisions that align with your goals.

New Releases

New Releases | March 7, 2023