James Sallis

James Sallis
Born (1944-12-21) December 21, 1944
Helena, Arkansas, U.S.
Occupation Novelist
Nationality American
Period 1970–present
Genre Crime fiction
Website
www.jamessallis.com

James Sallis (born December 21, 1944) is an American crime writer, poet, critic, musicologist and musician, best known for his series of novels featuring the detective character Lew Griffin and set in New Orleans, and for his 2005 novel Drive, which was adapted into a 2011 film of the same name.

Sallis began writing science fiction for magazines in the late 1960s. Having sold several stories to Damon Knight for his Orbit series of anthologies, and a story to Michael Moorcock by the time he was in his mid-twenties, Sallis was then invited to go to London to help edit New Worlds just as it changed to its large format during its Michael Moorcock-directed New Wave SF phase; Sallis published his first sf story, "Kazoo" there in 1967 and was co-editor from April 1968 through Feb 1969. His clearly acknowledged models in the French avant-garde and the gnomic brevity of much of his work limited his appeal in the science fiction world, though he received some critical acclaim for A Few Last Words (collection, 1970).

Later short work (uncollected until Time's Hammers) appeared in the USA through the 1970s and 1980s.

He is the brother of philosopher John Sallis.

Career

Sallis has worked as a creative writing teacher, respiratory therapist, musician, music teacher, screenwriter, periodical editor, book reviewer, and translator, winning acclaim for his 1993 version of Raymond Queneau's Saint Glinglin. Trained as a respiratory therapist, Sallis worked in intensive care for both adults and newborns at many hospitals. He taught writing classes at Otis College in Los Angeles and until September 2015 at Phoenix College in Arizona; he left his job rather than sign a state-mandated loyalty oath that he regards as unconstitutional.[1]

Bibliography

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Novels

Lew Griffin series
  • Sallis, James (1992). The long-legged fly. Carroll & Graf.
    • Reprint: No Exit Press, 1996
  • Moth (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1993. Harpenden: No Exit Press, 1996. New York: Walker & Co, 2003)
  • Black Hornet (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1994. Harpenden: No Exit Press, 1997. New York: Walker & Co, 2003)
  • Eye of the Cricket (New York: Walker & Co, 1997 & 2000. Harpenden: No Exit Press, 1998)
  • Bluebottle (New York: Walker & Co, 1999. Harpenden: No Exit Press, 1999)
  • The Long-Legged Fly/Moth Omnibus Edition (Harpenden: No Exit Press, 2000)
  • Ghost of a Flea (New York: Walker & Co, 2001 & 2000. Harpenden: No Exit Press, 2001)
John Turner series
  • Cypress Grove (New York: Walker & Co, 2003. Harpenden: No Exit Press, 2003)
  • Cripple Creek (New York: Walker & Co, 2006)
  • Salt River (New York: Walker & Co, 2007)
The Driver series
  • Drive (Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2005)
  • Driven (2012)
Other novels
  • Renderings (Seattle, Washington: Black Heron Press, 1995)
  • Death Will Have Your Eyes (New York: St Martins Press, 1997. Harpenden: No Exit Press, 1997)
  • The Killer Is Dying (New York: Walker & Co, 2011)
  • Others of My Kind (New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2013)[2]
  • Willnot (New York: Bloombsbury USA, 2016)

Short fiction

Collections
  • A Few Last Words (New York: Macmillan, 1970).
  • Limits of the Sensible World (Austin, Texas: Host Publications, 1994).
  • Time's Hammers: Collected Stories (Edgbaston, Birmingham: Toxic, 2000).
  • A City Equal to My Desire (Point Blank Press, 2004).
  • The James Sallis Reader (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2005).
  • Potato Tree (Host Publications, Inc., 2007).
Stories[3]
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
As yet untitled 2013 Sallis, James (Sep 2013). "As yet untitled". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (9): 56–57.

Anthologies

  • The War Book (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969/Panther, 1971) - includes his short story "And then the dark..."
  • The Shores Beneath (New York: Avon Books, 1973).

Poetry

Collections
  • Sorrow's Kitchen (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2000).
  • Rain's Eagerness (Hemet, CA: The Aldrich Press, 2013).
  • Black Night's Gonna Catch Me Here: New & Selected Poems (Moorhead, MN: New Rivers Press, 2015).

Criticism, essays, and biographies

  • Difficult Lives: Jim Thompson – David Goodis – Chester Himes (New York: Gryphon Books, 1993; rev. ed., 2000).
  • Ash of Stars: On the Writings of Samuel R. Delany (Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1996), edited by James Sallis.
  • Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (Seattle, Washington: Black Heron Press, 2000).
  • Chester Himes: A Life (Edinburgh: Payback Press, 2000. New York: Walker & Co, 2001).

Book reviews

Year Review article Work(s) reviewed
2000 Sallis, James (Jul 2000). "Books". F&SF. 99 (1): 32–37.
  • Tevis, Walter (1999). The man who fell to Earth. Del Rey Impact.
  • Tevis, Walter (1999). Mockingbird. Del Rey Impact.

Musicology

  • The Guitar Players: One Instrument and Its Masters in American Music (New York: William Morrow, 1982; Lincoln, Nebraska, and London: Bison Books/University of Nebraska Press, 1994, rev. ed.).
  • Jazz Guitars: An Anthology (New York: William Morrow, 1984), edited by James Sallis.
  • The Guitar in Jazz (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1996), edited by James Sallis.

Translation work

  • Saint Glinglin (Dalkey Archive Press, 1993; trade paperback 2000) by Raymond Queneau.
  • My Tongue in Other Cheeks (Obscure Publications, 2003) — selected translations of poems from French, Spanish and Russian.

Adaptations

Radio

Eye of the Cricket was adapted for BBC Radio 7 as part of the Readings to Die For series. It aired in 2007, 2008 and 2010. The main voice artist was Ray Shell.

Film

In 2011, Sallis' novel Drive was adapted by director Nicolas Winding Refn into a film of the same name starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan.

Notes

  1. ↑ Resnik, Brahm (September 29, 2015). "Phoenix College instructor quits over loyalty oath". KPNX.
  2. ↑ http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17286948-others-of-my-kind
  3. ↑ Short stories unless otherwise noted.

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