They Love Costco So Much They Wrote a Book About It

Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll meet a Manhattan couple who went to 47 states and 14 countries for a book about Costco. We’ll also find out about a four-decade fight to exonerate two men convicted of killing a French tourist in a mugging in 1987.

The people who wrote a book about the big-box chain they love live in a tiny apartment on the Upper West Side.

“Four hundred and fifty square feet of paradise,” said David Schwartz, sitting — not too far — from his wife, Susan, in what serves as their living room, dining room and kitchen.

It is also their map room. The two maps are relevant to their book, but you could miss them on your way in, tucked, as they necessarily are, behind the front door.

You could also miss the 12 largish jars of jelly beans next to an end table. Or the 1.75-liter bottle of whisky on the floor by the window, the even larger bottle of Bordeaux next to it or the three-bottle package of sugar-free ketchup nearby.