Interviews & Articles

This page includes a bibliographic listing of interviews, articles, and book extracts on Jim Sallis and his work. Several of these are collected either on this site or elsewhere on the internet.

Jean-Paul Bazart. 'Le frelon noir', Mauvais Genres.

Dinah Brand. 'L'oeil du criquet', LIRE.fr (October 2003).

Garth Cartwright. 'The Melting Pot of Genres', Guardian (Saturday 3 November 2001).

Lawrence Donegan. 'Skin Deep in Crime', Observer (Sunday 4 August 2002).

Paul Duncan. 'Professional Liar', in Paul Duncan (ed.), The Third Degree: Crime Writers in Conversation (Harpenden: No Exit Press & Crime Time Magazine, 1997). Reprinted in James Sallis, The Long-Legged Fly/Moth Omnibus Edition (Harpenden: No Exit Press, 2000).

Christophe Dupuis. 'James Sallis Interview', L'Ours Polar (2001).

Alistair Fitchett. 'Your Past is at Your Shoulder: James Sallis and Jason Flores-Williams', Tangents (February 2002).

Barry Forshaw. 'Jim Sallis: Dissonant Chords', Crime Time 22 (2001).

Woody Haut. 'James Sallis: An Overview', Crime Time 22 (2001).

Gerald Houghton. 'It Is Not Midnight. It Is Not Raining: An Edge Interview with James Sallis', The Edge 7 (May/June 1998).

Thomas Kaufsek. 'The James Sallis Interview', Mystery Scene 45 (1994).

Paul Kane. 'An Interview with James Sallis', The Compulsive Reader, article 1695.

John Kenyon. 'Monday Interview: James Sallis', 27 November, 2006 Things I'd Rather Be Doing.

Carrie McMillan. 'Hypertext Fiction Past and Present: James Sallis, Eye of the Cricket', Estar de Gala (September 2002).

Richard Marshall. 'At a Hard Right Angle: An Interview with James Sallis', 3AM Magazine (December 2002).

Richard Martin. 'Memories of Things Past and Yet to Come: James Sallis, Allusionism, and Play', Crime Time 2.4 (1999).

Richard Martin. 'Echoes & Mirrors: Cross-references in the Griffin novels', The James Sallis Web Pages (March 1999–September 2001).

Richard Martin. 'Notes on the Lew Griffin novels', The James Sallis Web Pages (March 1999–September 2001).

Richard Martin. 'Themes and Motifs in the Sallis Oeuvre', The James Sallis Web Pages (March 1999–September 2001).

Richard Martin. 'James Sallis: A Writer at the Edge', The James Sallis Web Pages (September 2001).

David Mathew. 'Followed From Life to Life: An Interview with James Sallis', Shots 2.5 (Spring 1999).

Dena McDuffie. 'James Sallis: Man of Mystery', Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine 10.6 (June 2000).

Tammy Michaels. 'James Sallis,' in StoryTeller: A Novel View (July 2003).

Patrick Millikin. 'James Sallis: Ghost of a Flea', Yourflesh Quarterly 41 (1999).

Patrick Murphy. 'Identity and doubt: Eye of the Cricket', Workers' Liberty 54 (March 1999).

Angela Cara Pancrazio. 'For prolific writer, images lead the way to truth', Arizona Republic (Oct. 5, 2003).

Raymonde Roman. 'De La Nouvelle — Orléans à l'Abyssinie', Parutions (12/09/2003).

Robert Saladrigas. 'En la cuna del jazz', in La Vanguardia (December 10, 2003). [Note: free registration required to read]

Walter Satterthwait. 'An Appreciation of James Sallis', in James Sallis, Eye of the Cricket (Blakeney: Scorpion Press, 1997).

Charles L. P. Silet. 'To New Orleans with Love: James Sallis', in Charles L. P. Silet, Talking Murder: Interviews with 20 Mystery Writers (Princeton, N.J.: Ontario Review Press, 1999).

Iain Sinclair. 'Hopi Mean Time', London Review of Books 21.6 (March 1999).

Matias Serra Bradford. 'Escribir, vivir y otros enigmas', Clarín (July 20 2002).

Armen Svadjian. 'James Sallis: Man of Letters', Ache Magazine 4 (Summer/Fall 2002).

Mark Thwaite . 'James Sallis', Crime Time 25 (2001).

Gilles van Grasdorff. 'La Voix de James Sallis', La Voix du Luxembourg (27 et 29 mai 2001).

Frédéric Vitoux. 'Un polar de James Sallis — L'enfer et Cie', Le Nouvel Observateur (October 30, 2003).

Daniel Walther. '"Polars" atypiques ', DNA (November 22, 2003).

John Williams. 'Noir Visions', W Magazine 14 (Summer 1998).

Jim's radio interviews with Public Interest and Fresh Air can be listened to online in Real Audio format.

The following books all include passages/chapters on the Lew Griffin novels:

J. K. Van Dover & John F. Jebb. Isn't Justice Always Unfair? The Detective in Southern Literature (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Press, 1996).

Woody Haut. Neon Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction (London and New York: Serpent's Tail, 1999).

Andrew Pepper. The Contemporary American Crime Novel: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000).

Nick Rennison & Richard Shephard (eds). The Waterstone's Guide to Crime Fiction (Brentford: Waterstone's Booksellers, 1997).

Ralph Willett. The Naked City: Urban Crime Fiction in the USA (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996).