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There’s a new resource for spring-break-bound overachievers as well as those who just want to take, say, their French to the next level. International-travel bookstore Idlewild unveiled a Brooklyn offshoot to its Flatiron headquarters last week (249 Warren St., nr. Court St., Cobble Hill; 718-403-9600), focusing exclusively on France, Spain, and Italy. In addition to more than 5,000 foreign-language novels, comics, and children’s books, the next-door storefront offers ten-week language classes ranging from beginner kids’ lessons to Crime Literature and Conversation. (via New York City Store Openings - Idlewild Makes Its Brooklyn Debut — New York Magazine) BUT BOOKSTORES ARE CLOSING EVERYWHERE! WE’RE ALL PANICKING! No we’re not, hurray Idlewild!

There’s a new resource for spring-break-bound overachievers as well as those who just want to take, say, their French to the next level. International-travel bookstore Idlewild unveiled a Brooklyn offshoot to its Flatiron headquarters last week (249 Warren St., nr. Court St., Cobble Hill; 718-403-9600), focusing exclusively on France, Spain, and Italy. In addition to more than 5,000 foreign-language novels, comics, and children’s books, the next-door storefront offers ten-week language classes ranging from beginner kids’ lessons to Crime Literature and Conversation. (via New York City Store Openings - Idlewild Makes Its Brooklyn Debut — New York Magazine)

BUT BOOKSTORES ARE CLOSING EVERYWHERE! WE’RE ALL PANICKING! No we’re not, hurray Idlewild!

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  1. lauvelazquez reblogged this from misslibrelula and added:
    ¿Y por qué demonios esto no estaba cuando fui a NY hace algunos meses? ¡No es justo!
  2. adoseofmemoirs reblogged this from housingworksbookstore
  3. misslibrelula reblogged this from shutupandbuckleup and added:
    Sounds like a lovely place! Tumblr keeps showing me lovely places to work on the other end of the world, ughhh.
  4. enigmatic-1 reblogged this from housingworksbookstore
  5. shutupandbuckleup reblogged this from fdfaumders and added:
    Ooh Idlewild is a really good bookstore, and this new branch sounds great. Go, my lucky New Yorkers. Go!
  6. fdfaumders reblogged this from housingworksbookstore and added:
    self (and others trying...better their romance...skillz/...
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  8. blerg reblogged this from housingworksbookstore and added:
    Awesome news! And note...self: look into those language classes. Watching I Am Love
  9. spaghettitree said: Idlewild rocks! This is wonderful news.
  10. kerishma reblogged this from housingworksbookstore and added:
    Oh man oh man oh man. This is fantastic!
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