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News ...from August 2007: BoucherCon is coming up soon (Sept. 27 in Anchorage, Alaska) and Jim will receive a lifetime achievement award! Plan now to get up to Alaska for the fun — we think this will be a great way to escape the summer heat. Potato Tree has received an excellent review in Rain Taxi.

... from June 2007: Your editor has been out of the country for a while, and missed all the excitement — the film rights for all of the Lew Griffin books have been purchased by Parallel Entertainment! Read all about it in Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, MovieWeb, ShotsMag Confidential, Movie and TV News Blog, and New York Magazine (3rd paragraph from the end).

...from March 2007: There's an interview with Jim in the latest issue of CrimeSpree Magazine. James Sallis has made the funny papers! Check out Unshelved's, uh, review of Drive.

... from February 2007: Jim will be one of the faculty members at next week's Desert Nights, Rising Stars — the 2007 ASU Writers Conference, running from Feb. 21-24, 2007. We're pleased to make available on the site three introductions Jim has written for new or upcoming books. The intro for the Point Blank edition of New Orleans Confidential by O'Neil De Noux is available here, that for the Serpent's Tail edition of He Died with His Eyes Open by Derek Raymond is available here, and that for the Scorpion Press edition of Pegasus Descending by James Lee Burke is available here.

...from December 2006: There's a new interview with Jim in the online zine Things I'd Rather Be Doing. Drive continues to get great reviews in paperback, and is creating a lot of buzz in the blogosphere. Check out this take from the Bookslut and this from Mel Odom on BlogCritics.

...from September 2006: Jim's review of The Uncomfortable Dead (by Paco Taibo and Subcomandante Marcos) has been published in the LA Times Calendar section.

...from August 2006: Jim appeared with Andrew Klavan on a mini book tour of Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Diego. Jim's review of The Collected Best Stories of Frederick Pohl has been published in the LA Times Calendar section. And here's some big news for Sallis fans! The paperback edition of Drive is now available from Harcourt. A new collection, Potato Tree — comprising the stories from the now out-of-print Limits of the Sensible World and most other previously uncollected stories — is forthcoming in early 2007 from Host Publications. And it's just been announced that, at Bouchercon 2007 in Anchorage, Alaska, Jim will receive a Lifetime Achievement award. Now we all have a reason to visit Alaska!

...from July 2006: Three Legged Dog, Jim's band, has continued to play out in the Phoenix area and around Arizona, and are now in studio. Be sure to check out their web site for the latest news. The release of Drive in the U.K. has prompted excellent reviews there, including this one from The Guardian and this one from The Independent on Sunday Jim's quarterly Books column for F&SF magazine has been posted. ...from June 2006: Cripple Creek continues to get strong reviews, including this great one from January Magazine.

...from May 2006: Jim has been profiled in the Los Angeles Times — on the cover of their Sunday, May 21 Calendar Book Review section! Cripple Creek has been selected by Booklist as one of the Year's Top 10 Crime Novels. And the buzz continues!

...from April 2006: Lots of buzz about Cripple Creek is circulating on the Internet — check out new quotes from the many positive reviews and order your copy now (we recommend The Poisoned Pen bookstore). Jim was interviewed for an interesting article about the lure of detective stories and movies in the Arizona Republic. Jim's review of Timothy, Or Notes of an Abject Reptile by Verlyn Klinkenborg appears in the April 9 Washington Post (free registration required to read).

...From March 2006: Cripple Creek has received starred reviews both in Booklist and in the April 1 issue of Library Journal. James Sallis' review of Dope, by Sarah Gran, appears in the March 18 issue of the Los Angeles Times. Hot News... Drive has been optioned by Universal as a starring vehicle (no pun intended) for Hugh Jackman and his "Seed Productions" company. Catch the buzz on the Internet here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

...From February 2006: Cripple Creek received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews (available online only to subscribers) on Friday, Feb. 17. Jim will sign Cripple Creek on Friday, April 8 (note date change!) at The Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale. Mark your calendars now if you're in the area! The latest Boston Globe column, on Donald Hamilton's Night Walker, has been posted. Drive is still getting rave reviews (this one from the Los Angeles Times.

...From January 2006: Cripple Creek (the sequel to Cypress Grove, which will be out this April from Walker) has received a starred review in this week's issue of Publisher's Weekly. Jim will be a guest at Festival américa in France this September. There is updated information on upcoming Three-Legged Dog performances on the music page. A Boston Globe column on Mati Unt's Things in the Night has been posted.

...From December 2005: An interview and feature on James Sallis is the cover article in the January issue of Mystery News. Drive has been selected as one of Entertainment Weekly's top 10 fiction books of 2005 in the year-end issue (hitting newsstands Dec. 23)! Drive has made yet another top-books list for the year. Reviewers write, "The slim novel underscores what power this author commands with spare, gem-like prose, brisk action and a Camus-like hero." A Boston Globe column on Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird has been posted. Drive has been chosen by the Washington Post as one of the best books of 2005. Reviewer Paul Skenazy writes, "Sallis's lean mystery and flat-voiced prose are refreshing, even startling. A lovely piece of work."

...From November 2005: An article about Drive and its publisher, Poisoned Pen Press, appears on MSNBC's Web site. If you read Italian, you may enjoy this recent interview with Jim, conducted while he was in Italy for Festivaletteratura. A Boston Globe column on China Miéville has been posted.

...From September 2005: Drive has gone into a second printing! If you want to obtain a signed copy of the first edition, you should order right away from The Poisoned Pen, as there are only a few copies remaining. You can hear Jim's new band, Three-Legged Dog, online on Achieve Radio. Look for the Sept. 17 show. Three-Legged Dog starts about 60 minutes into the broadcast. A Boston Globe column on Eric Frank Russell, has been posted. If you haven't yet picked up your copy of the marvellous James Sallis Reader, you can find it for sale now at Wildside Press. Jim's new band, Three-Legged Dog, has its first gig on Achieve Radio the third weekend in September. Jim's off to Festivaletteratura next week — see notes below for his appearances there. And a reminder: Jim will be signing Drive at The Poisoned Pen bookstore in Scottsdale, AZ on September 24th.

... From August 2005: Jim was a guest at Festivaletteratura in Mantua, Italy, September 7-11. A Boston Globe column on a biography of B. S. Johnson has been posted. Jim has a review of Orson Scott Card's Magic Street and So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy (Hopkinson and Mehan, Eds.) in the August 7 edition of the Los Angeles Times. BBC Radio is planning a five-part adaptation and reading of Eye of the Cricket — more on that as things progress.

...From May 2005: A Boston Globe column on recently printed and upcoming volumes by Boris Vian, Ray Bradbury, and Donald Harington, has been posted. James Sallis reviews a new novel by Laurell K. Hamilton for the Los Angeles Times Sunday, May 15. Jim will be judging the Wyoming Arts Council's 2006 creative writing fellowships in fiction. Up to three $3,000 awards will be presented to the best fiction manuscripts written by Wyoming residents. Winners will join Jim at a reading of their work at the Casper College Literary Conference, on Oct. 1 in Casper, Wyoming.

...From April 2005: The latest Boston Globe column, on books about bluegrass and related music and instruments, has been posted.

...From March 2005: A Boston Globe column on Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has been posted. Michael Moorcock has edited New Worlds, an anthology of works from the British SF magazine that he edited with Jim Sallis in the 1960s. Jim's short story "Jeremiad" is included; the book was published by Thunder's Mouth Press. Matthew Cheney has penned a nice blog entry about Jim's Boston Globe column series at The Mumpsimus. Jim's Boston Globe column on Camus's The Stranger has been posted. Crime novelist Charlie Stella has reviewed Moth on his Web site.

...From January 2005: Jim's new short novel, Drive, will be published by Poisoned Pen Press this fall, 2005. Jim Sallis reviews Harry Turtledove's Curious Notions in the Los Angeles Times. Jim's Boston Globe column on H.P. Lovecraft has been posted. If you'd like to print a copy of The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder, in which Jim's prose poems can be found, you can now do so at the Obscure Publications web site.

...From December 2004: Prose poems by Jim appear in the latest, two-volume chapbook from Obscure Publications, The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder, which also includes prose poetry by Lawrence Fixel, Robert Bly, Tom Whalen, Ian Robinson and others. Though copies are not available for purchase, OP will post a PDF soon if you'd like to print your own copy. In Fall of 2005, Jim will be a guest at Festivaletteratura in Mantova, Italy.

...From November 2004: Jim's Boston Globe column on Percival Everett has been posted. A City Equal to my Desire has received a strong positive review from the ALA's Booklist. A Boston Globe Reading Life column on Ray Bradbury has been posted. Folks in the Phoenix area can take three classes from James Sallis at Phoenix College this spring: Writing Studio Workshop I: Writing Mysteries (CRW242AL), Intermediate Fiction Writing (CRW270) and Writing the Novel (CRW273). Classes start in January and run through May. ...From October 2004: A City Equal to my Desire has been reviewed by This Week.

...From September 2004: Jim has reviewed James Ellroy in the Sept. 28 Los Angeles Times' Calendar section. (Only paid subscribers can read this online — alternately, you can pick up the print edition.) Jim has reviewed Cynthia Ozick's Heir to the Glimmering World for the Washington Post. The latest Boston Globe Reading Life column, discussing several books on music, has been posted. A City Equal to My Desire is finally available at your friendly neighborhood bookshop! You can obtain signed copies by ordering through The Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale, Arizona.

...From August 2004: The New York Review of Books press has just released a new translation (by Suzanne Jill Levine) of Adolfo Bioy Casares' Asleep in the Sun has been released, featuring an introduction by James Sallis. Bioy Casares was a good friend and collaborator of Jorge Luis Borges, and like him incorporated magical realism into his writing. A Boston Globe Reading Life column on Marek Hlasko has been posted. Review copies of A City Equal to My Desire have just been released, and the collection has already garnered a strong review from The Agony Column. City should be available for purchase very soon.

...From July 2004: Two short stories by Jim appear in the latest issue (#14) of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet [which this webmaster thinks is one of the finest little magazines being published today]. A Boston Globe Reading Life column on Philip Wylie has been posted.

...From June 2004: Cypress Grove is now available in paperback. Jack O'Connell has completed an introduction to A City Equal to My Desire, and the full cover art can be seen here. POINTBLANK will bring out City, a collection of Jim's recent short stories, in August of 2004. A Boston Globe Reading Life column on Donald Harington and Blaise Cendrars has been posted. Tinta 3D has reprinted Jim's poem For Blaise Cendrars on their Cendrars tribute page.

... From May 2004: A Boston Globe Reading Life column on Walter Tevis has been posted. Jim will be teaching, beginning this fall, a three-semester novel-writing course at Phoenix College, as well as a course in writing science fiction. In spring he'll teach courses on writing mysteries and in Intermediate Fiction.

...From April 2004: The Search function on this site (box to the right) has been re-indexed and works (much) better now. Fans of felines may enjoy a few new photos of the Sallis's cat, Grace, which have just been posted. The latest A Reading Life column in the Boston Globe, on Fred Chappell, has been posted. Jim's latest Writing From Life column, "Singing in the Sheaves," has been posted at Web Del Sol.

...From March 2004: Jim's A Reading Life column in the Boston Globe on Joe Lansdale has been posted. Three new stories selected by Jim (new one up 3/7!), "Living Where the Light is Better" by Garrett Quentin Smith, "Charlie's To Go" by B. C. Gill, and "Storms" by Doug Kimball have been added to Jim Sallis Presents... in In Posse Review.

... From February 2004: Otis College presents a lecture by James Sallis on March 24 — details are on their calendar page. Jim's A Reading Life column in the Boston Globe on John Collier has been posted. Jim has completed work on a new short novel, "Others of My Kind." Jim's review of the new translation of Boris Vian's L'Ecume des jours, Foam of the Daze (Tam Tam Books), appeared in Sunday's Los Angeles Times in the Calendar section (paid registration required to read online).

... From January 2004: Previous columns of Jim's Boston Globe column, "A Reading Life," are now archived on this site and may be read here. Jim's A Reading Life column in the Boston Globe on Machado de Assis has been posted. A new story selected by Jim, "Morning Smiled" by Joyce Faulkner, has been added to Jim Sallis Presents... in In Posse Review. Giano Editore, an Italian publisher, has purchased rights to Cypress Grove, The Long-Legged Fly, Moth, and Black Hornet. They will begin releasing Italian translations of these works annually starting in January 2005. Editorial Poliedro, Jim's Spanish publisher, has bought the rights to Difficult Lives.

... From December 2003: The first two chapters of Cypress Grove can now be read on this web site. Stay tuned early next year for pre-publication posting of the start of the sequel! The latest A Reading Life column in the Boston Globe, on Derek Raymond, has been posted. A new story selected by Jim, "Tommie" by J.K. Mason, has been added to Jim Sallis Presents... in In Posse Review. Courtesy of the publishers, Jim's introduction to Wit's End Publishing's special trade paperback edition of Charles Willeford's classic novel The Black Mass of Brother Springer is now available on this web site. Folks in the Phoenix area can take two classes from James Sallis at Phoenix College this spring: Introduction to Creative Writing (CRW150 - now full) and Writing Studio Workshop I: Writing Mysteries (CRW242AL). Classes start in January and run through May. Jim has signed with Walker Books for a sequel to Cypress Grove. Jim's book of translations, My Tongue in Other Cheeks, is out from Obscure Publications. Printed copies are not available, but you can download the PDF and print your own for free. The cover image may be viewed here. The latest Writing From Life column, Writing By the Seat of Your Pants, is online at Web Del Sol.

...from November, 2003 The trade paperback edition of Ghost of a Flea should be available shortly from Walker Books — signed copies, personalized on request, may be ordered from The Poisoned Pen bookstore in Scottsdale, Arizona. The latest A Reading Life column in the Boston Globe, on Calder Willingham and Hamilton Basso, has been posted. Jim's biography has been updated on this web site, and includes some more recent photographs. A Novel View online magazine has created a dedicated "Author Page" for James Sallis. Check it out for some great photos of Jim in France and a mini-review of Cypress Grove. This week, Wit's End Publishing will release their special trade paperback edition of Charles Willeford's classic novel The Black Mass of Brother Springer, which features a new introduction by James Sallis. This edition also includes the never-before-published play version of the novel, The Ordainment of Brother Springer, and is a must for Willeford and Sallis fans. Next year, Wit's End will be publishing a collection of James Sallis' recent stories, A City Equal to My Desire. A new story selected by Jim, "Optogram" by Craig Tepper, has been added to Jim Sallis Presents... in In Posse Review. Cypress Grove was reviewed on the BBC's 15 November "Saturday Review."

...from October 2003: The latest A Reading Life column in the Boston Globe, on Michael Dirda, has been posted. Jim has been interviewed for the Arizona Republic.

...from September 2003: Editions Gallimard has just released the French translation of Eye of the Cricket. No Exit Press will release the U.K. edition of Cypress Grove in paperback, as well as a signed and numbered limited edition hardback, this month. The first couple of chapters of Cypress Grove have been excerpted in the Los Angeles Times Calendar section. A new story selected by Jim, "Monk" by Daniel A. Olivas, has been added to Jim Sallis Presents... in In Posse Review.

...from August 2003: A Sallis article on Loren Estleman appears in issue 34 of Crime Time. Cypress Grove continues to get great reviews. Check out the quotes page for excerpts and links. Jim will be teaching at Phoenix College in Phoenix, Arizona next year — a mystery-writing class in the spring semester, a science fiction-writing course in the fall. His graduate-level writing course at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles has been moved to Fall of 2004.

...from July 2003: Jim was interviewed on University of Illinois' WILL radio station's Focus 580 show by David Inge on on July 23 — a RealAudio™ link is available on this site.

...from June 2003: Jim's latest Books column for Fantasy and Science Fiction has been posted, highlighting three strong first novels. A new Sallis essay, "Roomer of War," has just been posted at 3 AM Magazine. The latest issue of Paradoxa, "Fifties Fictions," includes an interview with Richard Matheson conducted in tandem by James Sallis and Jack O'Connell. Two new stories are up at "Jim Sallis Presents..." in In Posse Review.

... from May 2003: Cypress Grove has been released by Walker, along with paperback re-releases of Moth and Black Hornet. Jim has just completed one novel (based on the story "Drive" in Dennis McMillan's Measures of Poison anthology) and has started another. The short story "Ukulele and the World's Pain" is included in Mystery: The Best of 2002, edited by Jon Breen and published by ibooks. Three poems appear in the journal Pierian Springs. New Sallis short stories can be found in this month's Crimewave and The Third Alternative magazines. Cypress Grove has received a starred ("book of unusual merit") review in the May 1 issue of Kirkus Reviews.

... from April 2003: An essay from the New York Times has been reprinted in Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from The New York Times, Vol. II. James Sallis' May Books column has been posted in Fantasy and Science Fiction. Walker will release the trade paperback of Ghost of a Flea in Fall 2003. Gallimard, Sallis' French publisher, will release Eye of the Cricket in French in September 2003. They plan to release Bluebottle along with Les Jours En Feu, a collection of short stories, in 2004. A short story, "Free Time," appears in Album Zutique Issue #1. This fall, Obscure Publications will bring out a chapbook of selected Sallis translations of poems from French, Spanish and Russian.

from February 2003: Jim has finished an original screenplay, Learning to Fall, and has begun work on a new novel, based on the story "Drive" in Dennis McMillan's Measures of Poison anthology.

News from January 2003: A collection of Jim's stories is to be published in France by Gallimard under the title Les Jours en feu. All six Griffin books are being translated into Spanish for Editorial Poliedro, and a number of Jim's other titles are being considered for publication in Spain.

News from December 2002: 3 AM Magazine has published a three-part feature on Jim and his work in the magazine, including poetry, a short story, "Get Along Home", and an interview. Four new poems are available on the Melic Review site.