Other Times, Beloved Of L.A. Literati, Shutters

“Among all the possible reasons people have for shuttering bookstores these days, slipping into a diabetic coma does not come up terribly often. Andrew Dowdy, owner of Other Times Books, was about as invulnerable as anyone could be in this storm-tossed trade: Here was a guy who could make his rent, who didn’t worry about Amazon, who offered something that Barnes & Noble never could. Still, when he was awakened by his landlord after four days and nights passed out on his apartment floor, he realized … that it was time to hang it up.”