James Hughes is a Chicago-based editor, writer, and bookseller.
For over a decade, he was the managing editor and co-publisher of Stop Smiling magazine and its book imprint. His writing has appeared in Slate, The Atlantic, Film Comment, Grantland, The Ringer, Victory Journal, The Believer, The Paris Review, Wax Poetics, Chicago Magazine, and The Village Voice, as well as for organizations like the National Hockey League, the Henry Ford Museum, and Apple.
Having worked for years as a book editor, he recently turned to bookselling, co-founding the occasional vintage book and record shop Paper Or Plastic, which operates out of the Chicago headquarters of The Roof Crop, an urban farm and landscape company, of which he is a co-owner.
For more, visit Instagram @paper_or_plastic_chicago & @theroofcrop