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James Crossley

@jamescrossley.bsky.social
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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.

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Text generated by a Zohran Mamdani meme generator reading This is my substitute for pistol and ball
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Do you want to address this with George Saunders, @notpodium.bsky.social ?
Text reads: The door (immense, heavy, dead-bolted) presented no meaningful impediment. A assign through, I emerged into a magnificent entryway, then ascended a spacious stairwell lined with image after image of my charge: Leaning confidently against a podium, speaking to a tremendous crowd. Squatting with a kaffiyeh-wearing fellow before the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 22/05/2025
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).
Map of the Overseas British Territories
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
WTF?! www.kuow.org/stories/barn...
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Barnes & Noble to take over University Book Store space in Seattle's U District
After more than 100 years in business as an independent bookstore, the University Book Store in Seattle’s U District will soon be home to Barnes & Noble.
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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.
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Gonna try to dangle some bait for @levistahl.bsky.social in my next newsletter.
Text from a book page reading “He went in to Wisconsin as state geologist at last, to die,  not of disease, but of some subtle wearing-away process that baffled his doctors.”
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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.
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Larry Law @larrylaw.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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.
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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
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Republic of Consciousness Prize: Longlist & Live Zoom Party
YouTube video by Leaf by Leaf
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Pardon the plug, but my little bookstore is becoming less little and could use a boost.
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Stumbled across this listing and immediately thought of @levistahl.bsky.social bookshop.org/a/98349/9781...
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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...
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
“You will be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:
A grainy photo of authors William Gaddis, John Hawkes, and Robert Coover
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MutantsMichael ☭ @mutantsmichael.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
"Luigi Mangione" is, we must be absolutely fuckin clear, a character name rejected by Thomas Pynchon for inclusion in Bleeding Edge
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Reading the phrase “James wins National Book Award” sure is a nice ego boost.
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Amanda Clark @renegadestl.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
St. Louis going HARD on that sunset magic 📷
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
“There go flukes!” was now the cry from Tashtego.
Two white, cast-iron bottle openers shaped like whales rest on a dark wooden desk with indistinct objects in the background. The front whale’s tail, into which a bottle’s top would be inserted to remove its cap, is broken off and lies beside the body of the opener.
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
What a game
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Joan Aiken is good for whatever ails you
A copy of Joan Aiken’s Tales of London Town, with a black-and-white line drawing of a double-decker bus passing a fountain and a painted rainbow behind the title, is held by a male hand
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Bluesky graphic indicating poster was the 657,577th user to join the site, among the first ten percent of all users
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
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.
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
I think these turned out pretty neat. If you do, too, you should maybe buy one. leviathanbookstore.com/store/p/levi...
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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...
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 13/07/2024
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
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Subs / Dates — Republic of Consciousness Prize
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
Cooking up an event with one (or more) of the authors!
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
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?
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 05/05/2024
Been too busy for Bluesky lately, and here's why. www.riverfronttimes.com/arts/st-loui...
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St. Louis Is Getting a New Bookstore, Leviathan, This Year
The store is the brainchild of two experienced booksellers, Amanda Clark and James Crossley
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
We have a winner! Congratulations to City Lights Books and Ebru Ojen for giving Lojman to North American readers. With the aid of translators Aron Aji and Selin Gikcesu, of course. www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/news
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Blog 1 — Republic of Consciousness Prize
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
Nice to see so much enthusiasm for something I had a small part in. The winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize (US & Canada) drops on Tuesday, March 19! m.youtube.com/watch?v=cMWW...
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Best Book Prize Shortlist Ever? | Live Reaction!
Did I predict the Republic of Consciousness Prize for the US and Canada Shortlist? Watch me DRAW the full long list and predict the short list: https://youtu...
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
Republic of Consciousness Prize longlist assembly continues. Could be a very long longlist if the rules allowed it. #USRoC
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
Hey, @biblioasis.bsky.social is here!
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
Encountered Santa while roaming the Seattle waterfront like a tourist and exchanged a friendly handshake with mutual beard appraisal. He said he could get me a job if I wanted one.
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
Sad news. I think Possession was the first literary book I read and responded to as an adult. www.theguardian.com/books/2023/n...
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AS Byatt, author and critic, dies aged 87
The acclaimed author of novels including Possession and The Children’s Book, has died, her publisher has confirmed
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
The gift that keeps on giving www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/n...
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Ichiro Suzuki, 50, smashes school window with towering home run
Ichiro Suzuki made headlines over the weekend during a coaching session with young ballplayers at Asahikawa Higashi High School in Hokkaido
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
No one can travel to Philly or New Jersey because of the jamoke mind virus.
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Still waiting for copies of Miss Macintosh, My Darling to show up at the bookstore, but at least I have this insightful review to tide me over. www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
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The Longest, Least-Remembered Great American Novel
In “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling,” Marguerite Young held a mirror to the country’s ambition, delusion, and insatiable quest for perfection.
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Almost forgot to galleybrag about @kellylink.bsky.social’s new novel. Has anyone yet mentioned that the cover of the finished copies looks like a Book Moon T-shirt?
A advanced readers copy of Kelly Link’s novel The Book of Love rests on a brown wooden bookstore counter, with a view of the street outside visible through the panes of a glass door in the background
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Gosh this is good
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
At this point, what’s another couple months? It’ll make a nice Christmas present.
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Entrained and en route to Portland for a big bookseller confab
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
In honor of publication day for @legroff.bsky.social’s newest novel, I’d like to compliment her on both her marvelous new book and her impeccable manners. Reading and blurbing The Vaster Wilds was a pleasure!
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
The Pequod sails on. Dayswork by Chris Bachelder & Jennifer Habel is one of my favorite novels of 2023, and I’m looking forward to further Melvillean riffs from Tara Karr Roberts and Jennine Capó Crucet in 2024.
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 02/09/2023
First airplane read of Labor Day weekend
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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
Given the size of their new books, @dorothyproject.bsky.social is starting to seem like more than a project.
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