Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes a bookstore is just a bookstore. That’s not the case with Encore Books & Records. The NDG establishment, its brick-and-mortar façade perched proudly on Sherbrooke Street, offers up a feeling of community and connection as a neighbourhood staple for more than two decades.
“But it started well before that,” owner Sean Madden explains.
“My mother was a filmmaker; my father was a playwright and a poet. My parents were very involved in the local arts scene. They hosted a lot of parties. So that was my entire world growing up.”
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While passionate about licks and metaphors, Sean’s involvement in the bookselling trade came about during university.
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