Idlewild Books, the four-year-old travel guide and literature store that opened on 18th Street in Manhattan, has now added a second location (in Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill neighborhood) which will concentrate on foreign-language books, and specifically literature in French, Spanish, and Italian. “We love the neighborhood–with its strong Italian roots and growing reputation as New York’s Little France–and our neighbors have already made us feel welcome,” the store wrote in an e-mail to customers. 25 full-time employees and 4 part-timers were laid off from the Brigham Young University Bookstore on Friday. “As with bookstores across the country, in recent years, the […]
