{"product_id":"bright-segments-the-complete-short-fiction","title":"Bright Segments: The Complete Short Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor the first time ever, the complete short fiction of literary legend James Sallis is collected in one gorgeous volume--a must-have holiday gift for the crime, mystery, or speculative fiction fan in your life. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished over the six decades of Sallis's storied career, the complete collection contains 154 stories, 11 of which are exclusive to this volume. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames Sallis moves with ease among genres and modes: novels, stories, poetry, criticism, musicology, biography, translation. Best known perhaps as a crime writer--author of \u003ci\u003eDrive\u003c\/i\u003e and the six Lew Griffin novels along with others--his first acclaim came in the 1960s from groundbreaking short stories in science fiction publications like Michael Moorcock's \u003ci\u003eNew Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he served for a time as editor, and Damon Knight's \u003ci\u003eOrbit\u003c\/i\u003e anthologies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn years since, he's published eighteen novels, numerous collections of essays, six volumes of poetry, a landmark biography of Chester Himes, and a translation of Raymond Queneau's novel Saint Glinglin, while writing widely about books for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and for \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, where he served as books columnist. He's received a lifetime achievement award from Bouchercon, the Hammett Award for literary excellence in crime writing, and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough it all, his interest in the short story has remained strong, with work appearing regularly in venues ranging from \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e to the \u003ci\u003eMagazine of Fantasy \u0026amp; Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e. Herein you'll find science fiction, comedy low and high, fantasy, crime stories, stories of everyday life: the realist, arealist, and surreal all together in a jumble, enjambed. Literature, Jim insists, is not a cabinet with labeled drawers, it's a banquet table. Stroll around, pick what you want from it all. What you need. Enjoy.","brand":"James Sallis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46358510043372,"sku":"9781641295543","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781641295543.jpg?v=1744408244","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/bright-segments-the-complete-short-fiction","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}