Marketplace - Jan. 26, 2009
Hurley banks new bookshop on devoted customers
Buying a popular, landmark local business sounds like a winning idea, right? But what if that 82-year-old business just announced it's closing? Veteran bookseller Lanora Hurley is diving in and doing just that by keeping the Schwartz shop in Mequon open as Next Chapter Bookshop.
Tags: Schwartz Bookshop, Mequon Pavilions, Lanora Hurley, Next Chapter Bookshop, Daniel Goldin, Boswell Book Company, Carol Grossmeyer, Rebecca Schwartz, Politics & Prose, David Schwartz

Marketplace - Jan. 19, 2009
Goldin is just the man to carry on the Schwartz legacy
Eighty-two years after Harry Schwartz and his partner opened Casanova Books in the back of a Downer Avenue hair salon, Schwartz's shops are closing. It is truly the end of an era. Although there are businesses as old and considerably older still in Milwaukee, few have had the kind of runs Schwartz did. And that's because Harry and, later, his son David, never said never.
Tags: Harry Schwartz, David Schwartz, Casanova Books, Faulkner, Salmagundi, Daniel Goldin, Carol Grossmeyer, Boswell Book Company, Lanora Hurley