FKA Idle Time Books

01/04/2020

Don’t Panic! We’re remodeling this month, to return with some shiny new wood floors and fresh new paint. We are planning to reopen the first week of February, but will keep you updated here. Run comrades, the old world is behind you! Ramble on!

11/19/2019

If you like the defunct page of this no-longer-called-that bookstore, you will absolutely loooooooove the rarely-used page of the shop under our new name, !

Smash that like button, and check out our instagram for more frequently updated premium content. Please also feel free to write us a nice review on Yelp, for the algorithmic gods have buried all the pleasant ones and left only those written by customers who did not appreciate our salty-at-first-but-ultimately-sweet mien (and wanted to yak on cellphones without comment or intrusion).

See you on the slightly more useful corners of the internet!
- The Lost City Books Crew

06/20/2019

Friends of Idle Time: As of today, we have finally gotten our new sign painted and our social media pages up, only six months into running the place. Please like, follow, pray for, and invoke good spirits upon our new home on the internet on Facebook and Instagram!

We are very excited to continue slinging books to the Adams-Morgan community. Most of the things that everyone loves about Idle Time will stay the same (minus Val, but plus a very cool new logo). We will be updating the look of the inside (ie: the carpet) sometime late this summer, but until then your mostly-friendly if charmingly cantankerous local bookshop will operate with normal hours, Monday- Sunday 11a-10p.

Please come thru the shop and say hi to us as Lost City Books!

02/07/2019

We happy few, we (remaining) Idle Timers want to wish a giant thanks and bon voyage to Val, who leaves tonight on a jet plane for New Zealand! Salty, sweet, irascible, and fiercely loyal to her friends and her neighborhood, Val steered the ship through some of the toughest waters of gentrification and the Amazonification of the book world. She managed to preserve the legacy of Jacques and old Adams-Morgan for the next generation with good humor and fightin' spirit, and was a hell (and sometimes a hellion) of a boss and mentor. We'll miss her dearly!

Thanks for everything Val, and have fun on the farm 😉

❤️❤️❤️ Idle Time Books ❤️❤️❤️

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01/23/2019

Need a way to fight the winter doldrums? Come work for us!

We're looking for a part-time clerk for 2-3 shifts a week, with the flexibility to pick up more as needed. Check out the position details and application instructions on the Craigslist link below (and please be sure to read the whole ad!)

Idle Time Books is hiring! We're looking for a part-time bookstore clerk for 2-3 shifts a week, with the flexibility to pick up more as needed. The position would include at least 1 weekend and 1...

01/15/2019

We are hiring! Please share far and wide, but remember to read the whole ad 😉. If you would like to apply, please contact us through the Craigslist posting rather than Facebook. Thanks!

Idle Time Books is hiring! We're looking for a part-time bookstore clerk for 2-3 shifts a week, with the flexibility to pick up more as needed. The position would include at least 1 weekend and 1...

12/24/2018

Merry Christmas and Solstice from Idle Time Books, and joy to everyone celebrating winter holidays! Come check out our Xmas window, and grab some last minute gifts!

We'll be open from 11 til sometime in the afternoon today (3pm? 4pm? the winds of fate are fickle) and closed on Christmas Day, but open the rest of the week until New Year's Eve. Come spend some of that Xmas loot on books 😉

12/11/2018

As you may have heard, Idle Time Books is turning over a new leaf! We will have a new owner in January. We are very proud to have survived and served, with spirit, the Adams-Morgan community for 38 years. Thanks to all our deeply loyal customers, wanderers, and friends who have made the shop what it is. Please feel free to stop by and say bye to Val, and buy books from us in her last few weeks! We'll be open our normal hours during the holidays (11-10 everyday except for Christmas Eve, Christmas, and New Year's Eve), and will update everyone if hours will change next year.

Those of us who are staying on are proud and appreciative of Val for fighting the good fight to keep bookstores alive in DC. Rumors of our extinction have been greatly exaggerated.

After 37 years, Idle Time Books in Adams Morgan is getting a new owner committed to its mission.

12/07/2018

Looking for a gift for the intensely literary, bandana-wearing tennis prodigy in your life? We got you!

This signed first edition of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, DFW's 1999 short story collection, is available for $320 in the shop (after the 20% collectible sale). Come check it out! [Update: SOLD]