In 'Closing Times' the novelist and publisher Dan Davin has set down first-hand recollections of seven of his friends, all writers, all recently Julian Maclaren-Ross, W.R. Rodgers, Louis MacNeice, Enid Starkie, Joyce Cary, Dylan Thomas, and the Yiddish poet Itzik Manger. . .The unifying thread is Dan Davin's own participation in the episodes chronicled here, and his deep feeling for his friends.