Idlewild Picks
Idlewild (which was JFK Airport's original name) is one of the last travel bookshops in America. Located in a cool, castle-like building in the West Village, Idlewild sells guidebooks, travelogues, fiction, non-fiction and also offers French, German, Italian and Spanish classes.
Here are a few of Idlewild's current favorite reads. Thank you to Paola for sending these over!
ARMCHAIR TRAVEL
Tom Hodgkinson, How To Be Idle
Dylan Thuras, Joshua Foer & Ella Morton, Atlas Obscura, the Second Edition
Lauren Elkin, Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
FICTION PICKS
Clarice Lispector, Complete Stories
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Shadow of the Wind
Aysegul Savas, Walking on the Ceiling
NONFICTION PICKS
Julie Kavanagh, The Girl Who Loved Camellias
Valeria Luiselli, Sidewalks
Oliver Sacks, Oaxaca Journal
ON LANGUAGE
Penguin’s Parallel Text Short Story Collections- available in French, Spanish, Italian, German, & more!
Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words
Julie Barlow & Jean-Benoit Nadeau, The Bonjour Effect
All the above books are available for purchase through Idlewild's Bookshop page: https://bookshop.org/shop/idlewildbooks
Idlewild is also running a full schedule of online language classes via Zoom! Classes are starting or have started for May, and there are June / July classes open for registration. Check the schedule here: https://www.idlewildbooks.com/all-classes/
Idlewild, 170 Seventh Avenue, NY NY 10011
Idlewild (Cobble Hill location does not sell books, only offers language classes), 249 Warren Street, Brooklyn NY 11201
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