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 New reviews posted 16 September 2022 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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Late July, 2024: Jim's book Difficult Lives/Hitching Rides, previously published by No Exit in the UK and recipient of the H.R.F Keating award for criticism, will appear in the US in September from Syndicate Books in partnership with Jim's primary publisher Soho. The book combines Jim's classic though long out-of-print Difficult Lives — on Jim Thompson, David Goodis, Chester Himes, and original paperback novels — with a second volume of newer pieces on crime writers that originally appeared as book introductions, reviews, book columns, and commissioned essays. Soho itself, as earlier announced, in November follows with Bright Segments: The Complete Short Fiction of James Sallis. Also as posted, Bedford Square Publishers in November will bring out its collection of newer stories, What You Were Fighting For. Both Bedford Square and Soho have on hand for future publication the "mosaic novel" World's Edge, six novellas set in the same near-future in a country careening from totalitarianism to a new feudalism, anarchism, compassionate socialism, and points between. Robert Lance Snyder's essay on Jim's "neo-noir fiction" in the European Journal of American studies can now be downloaded as a PDF.
July, 2024 news (big update!): This November, Soho Press will publish Bright Segments: The Complete Short Fiction, close to 900 pages of stories ranging from the sixties up to last year. The title's from a story by Theodore Sturgeon, to whose memory the book is dedicated. Here's the cover copy:
James Sallis moves with ease among genres and modes: novels, stories,
poetry, criticism, musicology, biography, translation. Best known perhaps
as a crime writer — author of Drive and the six
Lew Griffin novels along with others — his first acclaim came in the
1960s from groundbreaking short stories in science fiction publications
like Damon Knight's Orbit anthologies and Mike Moorcock's
New Worlds,
with the latter of which he served for a time as editor.
In years since, he's published eighteen novels, multiple collections of
essays, six volumes of poetry, a landmark biography of Chester Himes, and
a translation of Raymond Queneau's novel Saint Glinglin while writing
widely about books for the New York Times, LA Times, and Washington
Post, and for the Boston Globe where he served as books columnist.
He's received a lifetime achievement award from Bouchercon, the
Hammett Award for literary excellence in crime writing, the Brigada 21,
the Deutsche Krimipress, the UK's H.R.F. Keating Award for criticism,
and The Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.
Through it all, his interest in the short story has remained strong,
work appearing regularly in venues ranging from the Georgia Review
to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Here you'll find
science fiction, comedy low and high, fantasy, crime stories, stories
of everyday life: the realist, arealist, and surreal all together in a
jumble, enjambed. Literature, Sallis has insisted, isn't a cabinet
with labelled drawers, it's a banquet table. Stroll around, pick what
you want from it all. What you need. Enjoy.
Also in November, in the UK, Bedford Square Publishers will bring out a collection comprising stories mostly written in the past five to six years, What You Were Fighting For, titled from one of the stories therein, that of a young man's encounter with the protagonist of Drive. Soho, meanwhile, has in hand for publication next year World's Edge, a "mosaic novel" of six long stories set in a near-future, balkanized U.S. Jim's recently assembled a new collection of poems, Stones in the Passway, its title echoing the blues lyrics of two earlier collections, Black Night's Gonna Catch Me Here and Ain't Long 'Fore Day. Jim continues to publish short work in a wide variety of publications, with recent appearances in North American Review, Exacting Clam, North Dakota Quarterly, and Analog. He just turned in his 52nd books column for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. For those of a more scholarly or completist bent, McFarland has published James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction by Nathan Ashman. It's a massive and thoroughgoing work offering, in addition to brilliant essays on the novels, an abundance of commentary on other work, including short stories across many genres, essays and criticism, even select book reviews. An essay on Death Will Have Your Eyes, Drive, and Driven by scholar Robert Snyder is set to appear in the European Journal of American Studies. Mr. Snyder recently has completed, as well, an essay on the Lew Griffin novels. Click here for news prior to July 2024 |
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