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James Crossley

James Crossley reads and writes in the upper left corner of the country, where he lives with his two tremendously interesting children and their tremendously interesting mother. He sells books for a living. Come to think of it, that's also why he buys them.

A Place to Visit and Something to Hold

This past summer I finally got around to reading Always Coming Home, Ursula K. Le Guin’s award-winning novel from the ...

Life Imitates Art: Sculptures, Novels, and Lawsuits

The rewards of being well-read aren’t always tangible, but they definitely exist. One minor benefit of bookishness is that it ...

Literary Traveling Companions

For the first time in years I’m actually taking a substantial vacation, one that involves airplanes and oceans and everything. ...