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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: reactions to Driven and the rest of the Sallis oeuvre. New reviews posted 4/27/2012

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 20 juillet, 2010

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 April 2012: Jim Sallis talks to The Daily Beast about his new novel, Driven. Read the starred review from Publishers Weekly and a new review in the Taunton Gazette. From March 2012: Are you ready for Driven ? Jim Sallis writes about Drive and its sequel, Driven, at CrimeTime. ...from January 2012: The Drive movie has been nominated for a Bafta award for best film and for an Oscar for best sound editing. The sequel to Drive (the book), Driven, will be published in April by Poisoned Pen Press in the U.S. and in June by No Exit Press in the United Kingdom. CrimeTime magazine reports that No Exit Press will simultaneously publish a reissue of twelve Sallis titles with new cover art; Jim will visit the UK to promote the book in May and June of 2012. A new interview with James Sallis by Tom Marcinko appears in Phoenix Magazine this month. The Killer is Dying has made the New York Times Notable Books of 2011 list, and Pima County Public Library lists it as one of the best regional books of the year. The Drive movie has made many reviewers' year's-top-ten-movies lists, including those of: The Daily Dischord Verdict; Flickering Myth; Roger Ebert in the Chigaco Sun-Times; Brandy McDonnell at LookAtOKC; Brian Gallagher on MovieWeb; Will Chadwick on We Got This Covered; Mel Valentin on Very Aware; Lou Gaul Calkins in the Beaver County Times; Top 10 Best Movies of 2011 (According to Rotten Tomatoes) in the International Business Times; and Rama's Screen Awesomest Movies of 2011. The movie will be released on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download by Icon Home Entertainment on January 30 2012. Finally, ComingSoon interviews Albert Brooks. about his work on the Drive movie.

Click here for news prior to January, 2012

Most Recent Columns...

Fantasy and Science FictionBooks — November/December 2011. James Sallis reviews fantasy and SF fiction for F&SF.

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Among the Ruins of Poetry (story)
Another Time, Another Place (review)
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)
Darkness and Light (Disch memorial)
The Darkly Talented Patricia Highsmith (review)
The Dead All Have the Same Skin (review)
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)
Hazards of Autobiography (story)
Heidegger's Body Parts (poem)
Incomparable Paco (essay)
Jumping Tracks (essay)
Late Dinner (poem)
Old Poems (poem)
On Boucher and Others (review)
Oulipo Compendium (review)
Roomer of War (essay)
Saguaro Arms (story)
Shutting Darkness Down (story)
When Fire Knew My Name (story)

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