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BOOKS FOR WORD TRAVELERS. Like our humble namesake, Postcard Bookshop shares stories from around our big world in just a small space.

Alongside international literature, regional cookbooks, travel writing, and guidebooks, you'll find essential travel acce

10/29/2026

¿Escuchó el anuncio? Direct PDX ✈️ CDMX flights return to Portland International Airport in January! Time to start planning…

10/27/2026

With the newest Roads & Kingdoms journal just landing, our magazine rack is loaded with global stories! Volume 2 explores heirloom Mexican corn, Iranian food in wartime, Jamaican coastal preservation, and stories from Sichuan, Sicily, Luanda and beyond. We also got a few last copies of the debut issue, in case you missed it early this year.

10/24/2026

Another week closer to Halloween and we have our eyes on another frightful destination: JAPAN. With centuries of rich folklore on which to draw, there are countless ghost stories and macabre monsters to discover. Learn about the myriad yokai through classic tales, contemporary twists, and even an iconic manga series. 👹

10/22/2026

Today is the day! Join us Thursday, October 22, starting at 7pm to catch THIRTEEN translators reading their work from the Deep Vellum Publishing BEST LITERARY TRANSLATIONS annual anthologies! Drinks! Snacks! Translations from Arabic, Braj Bhasha, Spanish, Russian … even Old English!

10/21/2026

We’re so excited for the ALTA American Literary Translators Association Conference to be in town this week. If you’re here as a professional, or just an enthusiastic reader of translated literature, we have an entire featured display of books on language, linguistics and translation. And make sure to join us for our Thursday night reading with a dozen visiting translators sharing their pieces from the Best Literary Translations series!

10/17/2026

Books, postcards, translation … all of our favorite things, together on one night! We’ll host author and translator Jennifer Croft for the launch of her beautiful new memoir, NOTES ON POSTCARDS, on November 11th. Gorgeously illustrated with her collection of vintage postcards, the book threads together the history of postcards with her own story of wandering, homecoming and motherhood. Come for the author chat and book signing, stay for the postcard writing party! 📬

10/15/2026

There is a wide world of macabre history and eerie tales to explore, so what’s our dark destination for this week? The British Isles have a long and haunted past, filled with ghost stories, witch trials and spooky sites to visit. Come for the misty moors and dark alleyways, stay for the night life 💀👻

10/12/2026

Just some of the indigenous voices (from this hemisphere) on our shelves right now. From language rights to sovereignity movements to folklore to foodways, there is so much to learn about the world by listening to the perspectives of first nations. Today is Indigenous Peoples Day in our country, but this is a global conversation!

10/11/2026

So many Egyptian books hit the shelves this week, and we have more on the way! Take your pick and come along for our on November 15th. 🇪🇬

10/09/2026

Not mad about the clouds and drizzle if it means mushroom 🍄‍🟫 season! A few classic guides to local mushrooms, a few fantastically fungal novels, and some fabulous feline foragers.

Address

81 SE Yamhill Street
Portland, OR
97214

Opening Hours

Monday	11am - 6pm
Tuesday	11am - 6pm
Wednesday	11am - 6pm
Thursday	11am - 6pm
Friday	11am - 6pm
Saturday	11am - 6pm
Sunday	11am - 6pm

Website

https://www.postcardbookshop.com/

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