New reviews posted 1 April 2025

Signed copies (personalized on request) of the latest Sallis books are available from The Poisoned Pen bookstore in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Section spéciale pour mes lecteurs français Mise à jour 28 décembre, 2014

Bedford Square Publishers/No Exit Press: Sallis' UK publishers.

Soho Press: Sallis' primary US publishers

Host Publications: publishers of Limits of the Sensible World and Potato Tree

Lew Griffin book cover gallery (U.S. reissues)

French book cover gallery

October, 2025: Soho Press will publish Jim's mosaic novel World's Edge, set in a near-future, balkanized United States, in February of 2026, simultaneously publishing the paperback edition of last year's Bright Segments: The Complete Short Fiction. Then, in October, Soho will bring out Jim's new crime novel, Backwater. A new story, "And We Shall Find Rest," is scheduled for the December/January issue of Asimov's.

August, 2025: Jim's new story "Shiny," rather an unusual love story, appeared August 15 on the online magazine 365tomorrows. Other new stories are upcoming in Asimov's and in the UK magazine Remains, which will publish a series of brief stories over four issues under the collective title "Letters from New America."

June, 2025: Robert Snyder's close reading of all six Lew Griffin novels has just appeared online in The Journal of American Culture. Thoroughly well-conceived and readable, the essay is available (for a small fee) online. Noting the "maverick" status of the novels as noir and the complexity of the philosophical issues driving them, Snyder remarks: "The continuing mystery is why so eminently literary an artist as James Sallis, who has admitted to an interviewer that 'each page, each line, gets questioned, revised, rewritten, buffed, trimmed and fileted hundreds of times' has gone largely unnoticed by scholars."

The first of a series of brief, interrelated stories under the collective title "Letters from New America" will debut in the third issue of the UK magazine Remains edited by Andy Cox, in the fine company of such as Steve Rasnic Tem, Andrew Hook, and Allison Littlewood. Copies and subscriptions may be ordered at https://remains.uk/.

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