Published July 1, 2009
I recently told you about the new push to get a co-op bookshop open in Shorewood to replace the now-defunct Schwartz location on Oakland Avenue. Tonight there's a kick-off rally at 7 p.m. at Hubbard Park River Club, 3656 N. Morris Blvd.
Published June 17, 2009
The other day a group hoping to open a co-op bookshop announced its plans to put that store in the former Schwartz Bookshop, 4093 N. Oakland Ave., in Shorewood. It's great to see the passion for indie bookselling in Milwaukee continues after the demise of Schwartz and Broad Vocabulary.
Published April 4, 2009
There have been a number of coffee table books using historical photos to recount the story of the Italians in America, but I think Vincenza Scarpaci's new "The Journey of the Italians in America" -- published by Pelican -- is different.
Published Feb. 16, 2009
She's not a Milwaukeean by birth, but author Valerie Laken is a confirmed Midwesterner who has quickly come to be smitten by the city's charms. And, even though her debut novel, "Dream House," published in hardcover last month by HarperCollins, is set in her native Ann Arbor, across the lake, Laken says Milwaukee definitely affected how the book turned out.
Published Jan. 30, 2009
Having worked at Schwartz Bookshop for years before coming to OnMilwaukee.com, it's a given that I know fellow New York-native Daniel Goldin. We worked together for a long time and we even roomed together when on trips to the annual bookselling convention. So, because we're friends, rather than me telling you about him and his qualifications for transforming the Downer Schwartz, I'll let him to you himself.
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