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Essays
James Sallis has published numerous essays, book reviews, and musicological articles throughout his career. While far from complete, this page offers a listing of those works. Several of these essays have been collected in Jim's collection, Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (Black Heron Press, 2000).
Accounts Due: Self-Portrait at Forty-Two. The Bloomsbury Review (1986). Collected in Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (39-42) . Posted on this site in April 1999. Against Competition. Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Against Telephones. L.A. Times (1983). American Solitude. North Dakota Quarterly (1985). Collected in Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (95-104). Arizona Evenings. The essay was first published in a Phoenix, AZ, newspaper in January 2000. Collected in the Saguaro Arms manuscript. Babe the Blue Ox, and Mike. First published in a birthday-book of tributes written by friends and dedicated to Michael Moorcock. Posted on this site in January 2000. Big Brother, Mom's Apple Pie and Pop. Robert Scott Wilson (ed.), Clarion II (New York: Signet, 1972). The Book Not Written. First published on this web site in March 2000. Cartons of Heartbreak. D Magazine (1990). Collected in Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (49-54). Chester Himes: America's Black Heartland. Ed Gorman, Lee Server, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), The Big Book of Noir (New York: Carroll, 1998). Chester Himes at the Heart of Darkness. Players. Circles. Southwest Review (1985). Collected in Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (89-94). Civility. America (1984). Collected in Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (105-10). Collisions. As yet unpublished. Copyright 1994. Competition. The Researcher. Demons & Mr. Cinq-Mars. Dallas Life (1984). Collected in Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (27-37). Feverish Country, This. Originally included in the Readercon 99 program, dedicated to the appreciation and analysis of the works of Gerald Kersh. Subsequently published in Nails 1 (1999) and featured on the Fantastic Metropolis and Flash Point Magazine websites. Gently into the Land of Meateaters. Western Humanities Review (1984). Collected in Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (7-16). Gone So Long. First published in Gently into the Land of Meateaters (117-20). Previewed on this web site in November 1999. Hearts of the City. Dallas Life (1985). Collected in Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (65-74). Incomparable Paco. Afterword to An Easy Thing. Reprinted in Fantastic Metropolis in February 2002. Increments. Dallas Life (1983). Collected in Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (17-25). Introduction. Robert Scott Wilson (ed.), Clarion II (New York: Signet, 1972). Jumping Tracks. First published on the BookSense.com web site (2001). Larry Block. Ed Gorman, Lee Server, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), The Big Book of Noir (New York: Carroll, 1998). Literacy, Leftovers and Little Magazines. Texas Books in Review. Literary Life. Negative Capability (1987). Collected in Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (55-57). Living Without History. Fort Worth Star-Telegram (1987). Collected in Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (135-39). Making Up America. North Dakota Quarterly (Fall 1993). Posted on this site in April 1999. Old Story at Airport. Fort Worth Star-Telegram (1984). Collected in Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (1-5). On Little Magazines. CCLM Newsletter (Coordinating Council of Little Magazines). On the Mall. The Texas Observer (1987). One Sunday. The Texas Observer (1987). Collected in Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (141-44). Open Spaces. The Texas Observer (1987). Orthographies. New Worlds. Paging Mr Himes.Nick Rennison & Richard Shepherd (eds), Waterstone's Guide to Crime Fiction (Brentford: Waterstone's Booksellers, 1997). Posted on this site in April 1999. Poetry: A Beginner's Manual. The Portland Review (1989). Collected in Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (59-64). Pushing Envelopes. First published in Gently into the Land of Meateaters (43-48). Previewed on this web site in November 1999. Revolutions. The Bloomsbury Review (1987). Collected in Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (111-15). Roomer of War. 3 AM Magazine (2003). Seeing Ourselves. Fort Worth Star-Telegram (1985). Some Notes for a New Fiction. The American Pen (Fall 1971). Standing By Death. Fort Worth Star-Telegram (1984). Collected in Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (131-34). Taking the Stage. First published in Gently into the Land of Meateaters (121-29) . Temporary Life. Negative Capability (1991). Collected in Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (145-59). Tissue. Harlan Ellison (ed.), Again, Dangerous Visions (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972) & Harlan Ellison (ed.), Again, Dangerous Visions 2 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977). Waco Days. The Texas Observer (1987). Where I Live. Fort Worth Quarterly (1990). Collected in Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (85-87). Wounds of Waiting. Asylum Arts Annual (1994). Collected in Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (75-84). The Writer as Teacher. Robert Scott Wilson (ed.), Clarion II (New York: Signet, 1972).
Jim has contributed several "Introductions", "Appreciations" and "Afterwords" to a variety of novels. These include:
Jim's many musicological articles include:
Jim has contributed several hundred book reviews to such publications as:
Jim Sallis has also worked widely as a critic and reviewer during his literary career. He currently contributes regular columns to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Review of Contemporary Fiction and Web Del Sol. Jim's review essays on Highsmith, Guillevic, Oulipo and Leithauser & Unsworth are available to read on the Boston Review web site. Older examples of his critical work — Speculative Fiction, Getting in Touch With Your Demons, The Decline and Fall of the Human Race, Journey to the Heart of Céline and Cuban Phantasmagoria — are all housed on these web pages.
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