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.
That’s fantastic! Any chance of more Ben Jonson stories?
October 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
That’s fantastic! Any chance of more Ben Jonson stories?
Should have said “very generous offer—go right ahead”
October 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Should have said “very generous offer—go right ahead”
Not at my store
October 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Not at my store
“Let me just say you don’t have to do all that. You don’t even have to know exactly what you think everyone else should do. Some of those are tough decisions! You just have to know what to do yourself.”
October 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
“Let me just say you don’t have to do all that. You don’t even have to know exactly what you think everyone else should do. Some of those are tough decisions! You just have to know what to do yourself.”
“I think that many of us have … gotten stuck imagining that we’re also pundits and politicians and somehow responsible for figuring the whole crisis out and having opinions on each new outrage and who should do what.”
October 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
“I think that many of us have … gotten stuck imagining that we’re also pundits and politicians and somehow responsible for figuring the whole crisis out and having opinions on each new outrage and who should do what.”
Well if NY booksellers aren’t spilling the tea how are the rest of us gonna know about it?
September 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Well if NY booksellers aren’t spilling the tea how are the rest of us gonna know about it?
And still one of the definitive histories of the place
September 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
And still one of the definitive histories of the place
You’re outside your territory but I’ll allow it
September 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
You’re outside your territory but I’ll allow it
Midnight release party, too
August 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Midnight release party, too
Yeah, that’ll be the launch for the Brodernist Book Club
August 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Yeah, that’ll be the launch for the Brodernist Book Club
M&D is better, but read AtD because that might incentivize me to finish it, which I never have.
August 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
M&D is better, but read AtD because that might incentivize me to finish it, which I never have.
Joan Silber. Ideas of Heaven, Improvement, The Size of the World… Her most recent novel is probably my least favorite, but still good. Also Molly Panter-Downs. And has anybody mentioned Sylvia Townsend-Warner?
August 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Joan Silber. Ideas of Heaven, Improvement, The Size of the World… Her most recent novel is probably my least favorite, but still good. Also Molly Panter-Downs. And has anybody mentioned Sylvia Townsend-Warner?
The dike trees in Seuss’s The King’s Stilts?
July 31, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The dike trees in Seuss’s The King’s Stilts?
They’re now out in paperback, with two of the original books in each volume.
July 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
They’re now out in paperback, with two of the original books in each volume.
I take unearned pride that two of your top picks are a St. Louis novel and a Pacific Northwest novel.
July 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I take unearned pride that two of your top picks are a St. Louis novel and a Pacific Northwest novel.
Love the map bookmark. Is that the flip side of the other or an entirely different one?
July 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Love the map bookmark. Is that the flip side of the other or an entirely different one?
Nah, Richard Burton
July 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Nah, Richard Burton