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Book Browsing in Montreal, Quebec

abstract:I'm looking out the window of my hotel in Vieux Montreal at the Notre Dame Cathedral with a dusting of snow. Below, a man in fur wraps is driving a horse buggy...

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December 06, 2002 — This is the perfect town in winter to curl up with a good book by the fire, or in bed with your hot water bottle. Montreal is a university town, not unlike Boston—there's McGill University,  the University of Quebec, Concordia, Montreal Université—and excellent French/English book stores abound stocked  with translations and Canadianna.

 

Favorite Bookstores

There's a tiny bookshop called Argo Bookshop, sorry no website (1915 Ste-Catherine W, Montreal 514-931-3442). For a larger selection, try Paragraphebooks.com. 

 

The Literary Scene

• Gallimardmontreal.com for news and information
•  BrokenPencil,  a newspaper/litzine which gives eclectic reviews, is a part of the underground Canadian lit-scene, "from the hilarious to the perverse"... 
• Literary Montreal has excellent lists/bios of Montreal writers.  Of course the late Mordecai Richler was one of Montreal's most ascerbic and entertaining authors.  Two Canadian classics by Richler: Barney's Version and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.

 

Oh, and the food and night life—ce n'est pas mal!

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