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 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 |
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Latest News...
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."
May, 2025: Nathan Ashman's excellent book on Jim's writing, James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction, from McFarland, just won Ashman an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Soho Press in the States, publishers of Sarah Jane, the six volumes of the Lew Griffin cycle, and Bright Segments: The Complete Short Fiction, will bring out Jim's latest, World's Edge, in spring 2026:
In a not-so-distant future the United States has fragmented, balkanizing
into unstable provinces often at war with one another, and Americans,
their great promise not so much lost as forfeited, are encountering
the terrors and devastation so much of the world daily lives with.
Throughout a land littered with refugees, ruins, orphaned children,
soldiers, militia, and fugitives, people go on about their daily lives
as best they can.
The five linked stories of World's Edge track the false starts and stall-outs of a nation and civilization trying to rise again, to rebuild, and of individuals caught up in that birthing. As ever, the only true history lies in the story of individual lives, in the old rag and bone shop of our hearts. World's Edge will appear in the UK from Bedford Square, who last year published the collection What You Were Fighting For. Meanwhile, Jim's Difficult Lives/Hitching Rides remains available from Syndicate Books, distributed by Soho. Jim's also written a few new stories, one of which, "And We Shall Find Rest," is set for Asimov's late this year. March, 2025: Catching up a bit: New reviews for Bright Segments and What You Were Fighting For have been posted, and an interview with Jim appears in CrimeReads. Click here for news prior to March 2025 |
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