Stephen Welch wanted to keep his store open, but couldn't afford to
A major rent increase by landlord Shiller Lavy forced the bookseller to close his Mile End store.
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A major rent increase by landlord Shiller Lavy forced the bookseller to close his Mile End store.
It is rare that a piece of writing is so intricate that every sentence must be read twice in order to understand something deeper, yet the themes jump out without hesitation. This is how I felt while reading The half-drowned by Trynne Delaney, a genre-bending novella which won the 2022 Quebec Writers Federation ‘First Book Prize.’ The story lands mostly within the speculative fiction category, combining magical realism and scientific fiction aspects to create a wholly new kind of narrative.The half-drowned takes place in a dystopian (yet not at all far-fetched) future where the pla...
After two years of virtual and hybrid events, the Holiday Book Fair returns to Concordia University’s McConnell Building Atrium (1400 Maisonneuve Blvd W.) November 2-5 (11 a.m. - 5 p.m.)
On the surface, A House Unsettled (Annick Press, out now), the new novel by Montreal writer Trynne Delaney, is a classic haunted house story (and a genuinely chilling one at that). It’s also a powerful coming of age story, fraught with difficult family and social dynamics as well as an incisive exploration of race, gender,
Article content As a francophone who has lived in the Mile End for more than a decade, Stéphanie Bourbeau rarely visits the S.W. Welch bookstore. And yet, when the teacher saw the ‘For Rent’ sign recently in the window of the venerable independent business, she was determined to act, especially after witnessing the closing of the café venue Le Cagibi in 2018. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Mile End residents hold read-in protest over rising rents Back to video “The Mile End is a place where you meet people, fall in love, cry, meet st...