The LA Times runs a page one story today about the woes of Southern California’s independent booksellers and drops another bomb:
The three-section, nearly 5,000-square-foot Dutton’s Brentwood Books may soon succumb to its landlord’s plans to redevelop the site, part of a compound on San Vicente Boulevard.
Arguably Los Angeles’ signature independent bookshop, the store is a beacon for both prominent authors and passionate readers. A move would indelibly alter the store’s identity, many feel. Dutton’s, with its irregular layout, ripped carpet and books overflowing their shelves onto old flagstone floors, is considered by many to be not just a city institution but one of the nation’s great idiosyncratic bookstores.
Previously: Dutton’s closing in Beverly Hills
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