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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
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What the critics are saying
New reviews posted
1/31/2008
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
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Latest Sallis News...
From May 2008:
Jim's review of
Knobloch's translation of Boris Vian's The Dead All Have the Same Skin appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday, May 4.
...from March 2008:
Big buzz! As you know, Drive
was optioned a while back by Hugh Jackman. Looks like the project now has a
director (Neil Marshall),
scriptwriter
(Hossein Amini) and producers (Marc Platt,
Hugh Jackman
and
John Palermo).
Catch the buzz
at Variety and
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here...
...from February 2008:
James Sallis reviews De Niro's Game: A Novel by Rawi Hage
in the Sunday, Feb. 24 Los Angeles Times.
...from January 2008:
News has just come in that Jim and Drive have won the
Deutsche Krimipreis 2008, Germany's oldest and most respected
prize for crime novels, in the "international" category.
The great reviews for Salt River
continue to pour in — have you read it yet?
...from December 2007:
Salt River is out!
It has already garnered a starred review
from Kirkus
Reviews (in their November 1 issue).
Feeling a little December blues?
Charlotte Observer says "[this] story, of life's joys and ravages,
will especially resonate with anyone struggling with darkness at this
cheery time of year." Crime Fiction Dossier,
selecting Salt River
as their Book of the Week, says "Sallis writes some of the most beautiful
prose in the genre."
Reminder for those in the Scottsdale, AZ area:
Jim will be signing Salt River at the
Poisoned Pen Bookstore on December 29.
..from November 2007:
Jim's short story Season Premiere appears in Dark Delicacies
II, edited by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb (Carroll & Graf, 2007). A recent
review in the Los
Angeles Times describes Sallis' story as "a gem of rural Gothic."
Jim was interviewed by The Compulsive Reader in July, and they are
featuring this interview on their main page this month. You can read the interview
online.
...from September 2007:
Drive is now out on audiobook,
unabridged, from
Blackstone Audio, read by Paul Michael Garcia. You can buy it on tape or
CD; you can even get it as a digital download, or rent the CDs. A must
for those long, er, DRIVEs.
Click here for news prior to September, 2007
Most Recent Columns...
Fantasy and Science Fiction —
Books
— September 2007. James Sallis reviews fantasy and SF fiction three
times a year for F&SF.
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