James Crossley
@jamescrossley.bsky.social
Founder and genius loci of Leviathan Bookstore in St. Louis. Utterer of strange and dangerous nonsense to please the bats at the back of his soul.
Do you want to address this with George Saunders, @notpodium.bsky.social ?
September 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Do you want to address this with George Saunders, @notpodium.bsky.social ?
Reposted by James Crossley
I believe this means the sun will set over the entirety of the British Empire tonight for the first time in several hundred years. Chagos is the dot below India on this map. Sunset in the Pitcairns (dot in the Pacific) will happen ~40 minutes before sunrise in Akrotiri and Dhekelia (dot on Cyprus).
May 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I believe this means the sun will set over the entirety of the British Empire tonight for the first time in several hundred years. Chagos is the dot below India on this map. Sunset in the Pitcairns (dot in the Pacific) will happen ~40 minutes before sunrise in Akrotiri and Dhekelia (dot on Cyprus).
Inside of you are two Links. One is Kelly Link, the other is Lancelot Link. You write an infinite number of short stories using infinite typewriters, mostly espionage comedies with interstitial musical numbers.
Inside of you are two Marlowes. One is Christopher Marlowe, the other is Phillip Marlowe. You are in a Howard Waldrop short story.
Inside of you there are two Burkes. One is Kenneth Burke, the other is Edmund Burke. Both urge you to nuke the site from orbit, as it’s the only way to be sure from both a rhetorical and conservative perspective, but Carter Burke, Weyland-Yutani’s corporate representative, urges you to reconsider.
May 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Inside of you are two Links. One is Kelly Link, the other is Lancelot Link. You write an infinite number of short stories using infinite typewriters, mostly espionage comedies with interstitial musical numbers.
Gonna try to dangle some bait for @levistahl.bsky.social in my next newsletter.
April 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Gonna try to dangle some bait for @levistahl.bsky.social in my next newsletter.
I’m probably the last to tell you about the @usrofc.bsky.social shortlist, but I’m proud to have had something to do with all the titles on it.
March 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I’m probably the last to tell you about the @usrofc.bsky.social shortlist, but I’m proud to have had something to do with all the titles on it.
Reposted by James Crossley
A design I did for my buddy @jamescrossley.bsky.social & the brand new badass @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social in St. Louis. Please consider supporting them. Link in bio to their kickstarter where you can snag one of these shirts.
February 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
A design I did for my buddy @jamescrossley.bsky.social & the brand new badass @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social in St. Louis. Please consider supporting them. Link in bio to their kickstarter where you can snag one of these shirts.
Great video summarizing the @usrofc.bsky.social longlist and inviting you to the virtual celebration of the authors, publishers, and translators. With a @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social cameo!
youtu.be/Zf75OJnzQMs
youtu.be/Zf75OJnzQMs
Republic of Consciousness Prize: Longlist & Live Zoom Party
YouTube video by Leaf by Leaf
youtu.be
February 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Great video summarizing the @usrofc.bsky.social longlist and inviting you to the virtual celebration of the authors, publishers, and translators. With a @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social cameo!
youtu.be/Zf75OJnzQMs
youtu.be/Zf75OJnzQMs
Pardon the plug, but my little bookstore is becoming less little and could use a boost.
Will you look at that? We've found a new home! We could use a little help with moving costs, so if you're able to contribute, we'd be most grateful.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lev...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lev...
Leviathan Bookstore
Leviathan Bookstore is moving from pop-up to permanent home, creating a new hub for independent readers in St. Louis. Help us grow!
www.kickstarter.com
January 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Pardon the plug, but my little bookstore is becoming less little and could use a boost.
Stumbled across this listing and immediately thought of @levistahl.bsky.social
bookshop.org/a/98349/9781...
bookshop.org/a/98349/9781...
Dance Class: American High School Students Encounter Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time a book by John A. Gould
Dance Class offers an extraordinary collection of student essays about Anthony Powell's great comic novel A Dance to the Music of Time. The young authors not only discuss issues of character, plot, an...
bookshop.org
December 27, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Stumbled across this listing and immediately thought of @levistahl.bsky.social
bookshop.org/a/98349/9781...
bookshop.org/a/98349/9781...
“You will be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
December 24, 2024 at 5:21 PM
“You will be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
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"Luigi Mangione" is, we must be absolutely fuckin clear, a character name rejected by Thomas Pynchon for inclusion in Bleeding Edge
December 9, 2024 at 10:14 PM
"Luigi Mangione" is, we must be absolutely fuckin clear, a character name rejected by Thomas Pynchon for inclusion in Bleeding Edge
Reading the phrase “James wins National Book Award” sure is a nice ego boost.
November 21, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Reading the phrase “James wins National Book Award” sure is a nice ego boost.
Reposted by James Crossley
St. Louis going HARD on that sunset magic 📷
November 16, 2024 at 1:27 AM
St. Louis going HARD on that sunset magic 📷
“There go flukes!” was now the cry from Tashtego.
November 2, 2024 at 6:22 PM
“There go flukes!” was now the cry from Tashtego.
Joan Aiken is good for whatever ails you
September 17, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Joan Aiken is good for whatever ails you
Josh's August newsletter (you all subscribe already, right?) triggers two-decade old memories of my own flight into fantasy (as a reader) when I was a new parent.
And yes, I'll be writing about Opacities in the August newsletter. Maybe you want to read what I have to say joshs-newsletter-dc434e.beehiiv.com/subscribe
August 15, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Josh's August newsletter (you all subscribe already, right?) triggers two-decade old memories of my own flight into fantasy (as a reader) when I was a new parent.
I think these turned out pretty neat. If you do, too, you should maybe buy one.
leviathanbookstore.com/store/p/levi...
leviathanbookstore.com/store/p/levi...
Leviathan Bookstore Shirts — Leviathan Bookstore
After books and bookstores, bookstore T-shirts are our favorite things. So
naturally we had to make one for Leviathan Bookstore. Ours features our
classic logo in orange on a cool slate gray backgro...
leviathanbookstore.com
August 13, 2024 at 5:33 PM
I think these turned out pretty neat. If you do, too, you should maybe buy one.
leviathanbookstore.com/store/p/levi...
leviathanbookstore.com/store/p/levi...
It's time! To enter books for the Republic of Consciousness Prize (US & Canada). Then comes judging time, which is a lot harder and my job, not yours. Submit!
www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/submissions
www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/submissions
Subs / Dates — Republic of Consciousness Prize
www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com
July 13, 2024 at 4:39 PM
It's time! To enter books for the Republic of Consciousness Prize (US & Canada). Then comes judging time, which is a lot harder and my job, not yours. Submit!
www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/submissions
www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/submissions
Cooking up an event with one (or more) of the authors!
You know how they say authors need to promote their own books, that it’s really key to sales? Well, it’s actually true. And I have done a shitty job w/my book (July 2). So let’s RT the shit out of this post? 😬 bookshop.org/p/books/best...
June 11, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Cooking up an event with one (or more) of the authors!
Trying to remember the name and author of a novel from the past decade or so, an alternate history of '60s counterculture set in the American southwest, by an SF or SF-adjacent writer. Was "Fire" in the title? @adamroberts.bsky.social?
May 9, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Trying to remember the name and author of a novel from the past decade or so, an alternate history of '60s counterculture set in the American southwest, by an SF or SF-adjacent writer. Was "Fire" in the title? @adamroberts.bsky.social?