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James Sallis


USA flag (b.1944)

Jim Sallis has published fourteen novels, multiple collections of short stories, essays, and poems, books of musicology, a biography of Chester Himes, and a translation of Raymond Queneau's novel Saint Glinglin. He has written about books for the L.A. Times, New York Times, and Washington Post, and for some years served as a books columnist for the Boston Globe. In 2007 he received a lifetime achievement award from Bouchercon. In addition to the feature film Drive, the six Lew Griffin books are under consideration for development as feature films and Driven is optioned to the same team as Drive. Jim teaches novel writing at Phoenix College and plays regularly with his string band, Three-Legged Dog. He stays busy.
 

Genres: Mystery, Science Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
November 2024

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Bright Segments
 
Series
Lew Griffin
   1. The Long-Legged Fly (1992)
   2. Moth (1993)
   3. Black Hornet (1994)
   4. Eye of the Cricket (1997)
   5. Blue Bottle (1998)
   6. Ghost of a Flea (2001)
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Turner
   1. Cypress Grove (2003)
   2. Cripple Creek (2006)
   3. Salt River (2007)
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Drive
   1. Drive (2005)
   2. Driven (2012)
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Novels
   Renderings (1995)
   Death Will Have Your Eyes (1997)
   The Killer is Dying (2011)
   Others of My Kind (2013)
   Willnot (2016)
   Sarah Jane (2019)
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Collections
   A Few Last Words (1970)
   Limits of the Sensible World (1994)
   Time's Hammers (2000)
   A City Equal to My Desire (2000)
   Sorrow's Kitchen (poems) (2000)
   Breaking Windows (2003) (with others)
   Potato Tree (2007)
   Black Night's Gonna Catch Me Here: New and Selected Poems (poems) (2015)
   Night's Pardons (poems) (2016)
   Dayenu and Other Stories (2021)
   Bright Segments (2024)
   What You Were Fighting For (2024)
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Anthologies edited
   The War Book (1969)
   The Shores Beneath (1971)
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Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
James Sallis recommends
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Hard Girls (2024)
(Jane and Lila Pool, book 1)
J Robert Lennon
"We build our world from the materials available, those given and allowed us. In Hard Girls, J. Robert Lennon has a brilliant, seemingly effortless way of sorting through the lumber, bent nails, staples, glue, and salvage that make up our lives."
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Broken Sword (2023)
(Tijuana Noir)
Mark Rogers
"MArk Rogers knows that the stylish polished picture frame in which we live is riddled with holes in which worms live."
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Jackdaw (2022)
Tade Thompson
"Like Joyce's Nighttown sequence, Jackdaw dwells timelessly along some ever-undefined border between dreams, the actual, the creatively imagined, and hard-edged hallucination. It is brutal, unremitting and, very much in its own steadfast manner, brilliant."

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Anthologies containing stories by James Sallis
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Black is the Night (2022)
Stories Inspired by Cornell Woolrich
edited by
Maxim Jakubowski
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Bullets and Other Hurting Things (2021)
A Tribute to Bill Crider
edited by
Rick Ollerman

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Awards
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1971) : The Creation of Bennie Good
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1994) : Moth
Anthony Awards Best Novel nominee (1998) : Eye of the Cricket


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