In the Media

Les mots pour le vivre

Dans ce troisième épisode, les propriétaires de la petite librairie The Word de la rue Milton, à Montréal, doivent faire preuve d’ingéniosité pour survivre et ne pas perdre ce patrimoine familial, voulant le léguer à leur fils Brendan. On les retrouve aux quatre coins de la ville, dans des rues désertes, en train de livrer des boîtes de livres qui contiennent chacune… une surprise.

Small is beautiful

Authors for Indies Day lets writers and readers celebrate a common love.

Turning the page on forty years

The Word celebrates its birthday with the Milton-Parc community

What people are saying

  • "The Word has been a haven for McGill students for more than a generation, and for many literary friends from all over the city. … It has been a haven in a particular way for me, because when my son was preschool or elementary school age and we were walking home, we would stop off to take a look at the children’s books in the corner, and then as he became more independent, he would stop off himself and was often found ensconced in an art deco armchair in that corner."

    —Writer and longtime Milton Parc resident Denis Sampson, from the memoir A Migrant Heart (2014)

  • “I first walked in when I was at McGill and was looking for a cheap copy of Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil. It is a tiny little store. Everyone says a prayer before walking in so that the roof won’t collapse. There are novels and photography books and collections of the pensées of mad philosophers piled up on chairs and tables and staircases. It’s a small miracle that such nooks of books still exist.”

    — Heather O'Neill the author of When we lost our Heads

  • "The cross on the Mountain, the Big O's tower, the dome of St. Joseph's--they're all fine and good, but the real soul of a city resides in smaller, neighborhood-scale landmarks. One such is The Word Bookstore."

    — Ian McGillis, author and arts and culture writer for The Montreal Gazette