Last week, in the shadow of his three year anniversary, proprietor of Back Pages Books Alex Green ’04 sent an e-mail to over 800 friends, acquaintances, customers, and colleagues detailing his store’s financial woes. After three years on Moody Street, his business is on verge of shutting its doors. “[W]ithout significant increased financial support,” he wrote in his e-mail message, “I will have to close the store in the immediate future.” In an interview, Green described the challenges the bookstore has faced over the past three years. “When we started, banks weren’t going ...