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One of mine, too. Took a class with him in which we read initial volumes of multi-volume books (Proust, Tolkien, etc.) and picnicked every Friday pot-luck style. He brought the wine.

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I don’t think $40 is too much, but I do think that’s a bright line for customers.

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Customers are talking about how expensive books have gotten and I always tell them not as much as they should be. Good to see that corroborated.

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If I didn’t already have too many T-shirts I’d put that on a T-shirt

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Probably bringing a copy of Steven Millhauser’s Martin Dressler with me on the plane.

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Thanks to Dark Renaissance, my bookstore is holding a wake for poor Marlowe on or about the anniversary of his murder.

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Wasn’t Wilder speaking of later variations on the apron being introduced as changes were rung on church bells? As valid in that context as “wrought,” I think.

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

If ever a book was written expressly for me, it’s probably this one.

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

If only I looked that good in the cap…

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I got traded! They had to update my team.

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

There’s something misleading about the way the cohorts are broken down in that poll. Why is the Gen X category twice as wide as the others? I suspect the numbers would look different if the ages were subdivided further.

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Well, you put your toe right behind the foul line, usually

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I’m don’t think they’re on Bluesky, but the folks at Tomorrow Bookstore in Indianapolis know a lot about this.

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

That’s just how we live now, I guess

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The Fine Arts building—still with manually operated elevators

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

That’s fantastic! Any chance of more Ben Jonson stories?

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Should have said “very generous offer—go right ahead”

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

“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.”

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

“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.”

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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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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Well if NY booksellers aren’t spilling the tea how are the rest of us gonna know about it?

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

And still one of the definitive histories of the place

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

You’re outside your territory but I’ll allow it

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Yeah, that’ll be the launch for the Brodernist Book Club

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

M&D is better, but read AtD because that might incentivize me to finish it, which I never have.

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James Crossley @jamescrossley.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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?

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