{"product_id":"book-j0cz","title":"Bright Segments","description":"\u003cp\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 \u003cem\u003eDrive\u003c\/em\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 \u003cem\u003eNew Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e, for which he served for a time as editor, and Damon Knight’s Orbit anthologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\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 \u003cem\u003eSaint Glinglin\u003c\/em\u003e, while writing widely about books for \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLA Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, and for \u003cem\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eThrough it all, his interest in the short story has remained strong, with work appearing regularly in venues ranging from \u003cem\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/em\u003e to the \u003cem\u003eMagazine of Fantasy \u0026amp; Science Fiction\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49397285257520,"sku":"BDj0cz","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49850308624688,"sku":"ZEj0cz","price":79.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49850308657456,"sku":"ZMj0cz","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/627873-j0cz-Square.jpg?v=1735461459","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-j0cz","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}