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The James Sallis Web
Pages form an online resource
dedicated to the appreciation and analysis of one of the
most accomplished
writers working in the USA today.
This site presents
original work by the author as well as
interviews, critical comment and reference resources.
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What the critics are saying:
reactions to Others of My Kind and the rest of the Sallis oeuvre.
New reviews posted 4/28/2014
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 18 juillet, 2013
No Exit Press: Sallis' UK publishers.
Walker Books: 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
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Latest Sallis News...
From June 2014:
Jim's introduction to Manchette's The Mad and the Bad
appears in the New York Review of Books.
Jim Sallis's novel Death Will Have Your Eyes
has just been
reissued as a Mulholland Classic from Little, Brown.
The paperback of last year's novel Others of My Kind
is pending shortly from Bloomsbury.
April 2015 will see publication of his third poetry collection,
Black Night's Gonna Catch Me Here: Selected Poems 1968-2012
by
New Rivers Press.
Introductions written by Jim have recently appeared in
a new edition of Jim Thompson's The Golden Gizmo
from Mulholland Books,
in
The Graveyard by Polish writer Marek Hlasko from Melville House Books,
in a new
French edition of Jean-Patrick Manchette's novel Le petit bleu de
la côte Ouest from Gallimard, and in
the Manchette novel
The Mad and The Bad from New York Review of Books.
James Sallis' short story "Venice is Sinking into the Sea" appears
in the British collection
OxCrimes, created to raise money for the
charity Oxfam and
reviewed here by Jake Kerridge.
...from April 2014:
An interview with Jim Sallis by Cecilia Lavopa is up at the Italian blog
Contorni di noir.
...from March 2014:
Crime City Central will be featuring readings of James Sallis short
stories in their podcasts (archived on their site)
this spring. The first one, a reading of
"Blue Devils" by Stephen Kilpatrick,
is featured in their March 17 podcast.
Classic Sallic stories "Jim and Mary G" and "Shutting Darkness Down"
are coming soon.
...from January 2014:
Jim recently read some of his poetry
at the Phoenix Poetry Series.
A great
interview with Jim Sallis
by Jeremy Glover can be found in the Arkansas Times.
...from December 2013:
A radio interview with Jim has been
posted at KJZZ.org.
The Killer is Dying has been awarded
LiRE Magazine's award for Best Crime Book of the Year.
Read a review by Barry Forshaw of The Killer is Dying at
Crime Time magazine.
...from November 2013:
Check out Keith Rawson's November interview with James Sallis.
In addition to carrying the UK edition of Others of My Kind,
No Exit Press
is featuring their entire James Sallis back catalogue with new covers,
including a limited edition
boxed set that includes
thirteen titles and a vinyl album, exclusively at London Books.
Jim Sallis signed Others of My Kind at the
Poisoned Pen bookstore
in Scottsdale on November 23 — and his band,
Three-Legged Dog, performed as well.
A new short story by James Sallis has been published by ShortList: you
can read "Greatest Hits" online at their site.
Meanwhile, Others of My Kind
is reviewed at The Spectator.
...from October 2013: Read reviews of Others of My Kind in
The Daily Mail and
the Independent.
...from September 2013:
Le Tueur se meurt, the French translation of
James Sallis' book The Killer is Dying, has
been awarded the Grand Prix de
Littérature policière for 2013.
Others of My Kind has been named one of Publishers Weekly's
best new books of the week for September 9, 2013.
Read Patrick Millikin's
interview with James Sallis about his new book, Others of My Kind,
in Publishers Weekly.
Click here for news prior to September, 2013
Most Recent Columns...
Fantasy and Science Fiction —
Books
— July/August 2013. James Sallis reviews fantasy and SF fiction
for F&SF.
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