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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. Original work is accessible via the bibliography pages. All such content is © James Sallis and may not be reproduced without the author's permission. Jim can be contacted by email at JimSallis@aol.com. The site is maintained by Webmaster V.

What the critics are saying New reviews posted 12/22/2008

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

Section spéciale pour les lecteurs de la langue française Mise à jour 5 juillet, 2005

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

Latest Sallis News...

From February 2008: CrimeCritics review What You Have Left, a collection of all three Turner novels. Salt River continues to garner rave reviews, as here in Woody Haut's noir fiction blog. Jack O'Connell lists The James Sallis Reader in his Top 10 Science Fiction/Fantasy Books of 2008. Meanwhile, Drive gets attention in South Africa and in Spain. ...from December 2008: Salt River has just been published in the UK, leading to a nice review in Crime Time magazine. Salt River has made the Seattle Times' Best Mysteries of 2008 list. ...from November 2008: Salt River has been chosen as one of Publisher's Weekly's best books of 2008! ...from October 2008: Jim's review of the boxed set of Ripley novels by Patricia Highsmith appears in the Sunday, Oct. 26 Los Angeles Times. Jim was interviewed by Chris Wiegand for The Guardian (UK) in preparation for the upcoming UK publication of Salt River. While working on a new novel, Jim is teaching three writing classes in Phoenix this semester and his band, Three-Legged Dog, appears almost every weekend. ...from July 2008: Jim's remembrance of Thomas Disch appears in the Sunday, July 17 Los Angeles Times.

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Most Recent Columns...

Fantasy and Science FictionBooks — December 2008. James Sallis reviews fantasy and SF fiction three times a year for F&SF.

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Among the Ruins of Poetry (story)
Artaud (poem)
Autumn Leaves (story)
Bleak Bay (story)
Blue Devils (story)
Blue Yonders (story)
Book of Hours (poem)
The Book Not Written (essay)
Career Moves (story)
Dear Floods of Her Hair (story)
The Death of Poetry (poem)
The Death of Virgil (poem)
Departures (poem)
Feverish Country, This (essay)
Four Poems (poems)
Five Poems (poems)
Get Along Home (story)
Harbor (poem)
Hazards of Autobiography (story)
Heidegger's Body Parts (poem)
Incomparable Paco (essay)
Intelligent Life in Duncanville (poem)
Jumping Tracks (essay)
Late Dinner (poem)
Old Poems (poem)
On Boucher and Others (review)
Ordinary Mornings (poem)
Ordinary Nights (poem)
Roomer of War (essay)
Saguaro Arms (story)
Saint Glinglin (extract)
Shutting Darkness Down (story)
They Who Have No King (poem)
When Fire Knew My Name (story)

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