The James Sallis Reader (The Point Blank Reader)

The POINT BLANK READER series is dedicated to introducing you to the finest novelists in the mystery and crime fiction genres in carefully selected volumes that each include a full length novel, selected shorter fiction and other writings by the author. JAMES SALLIS is the author of the acclaimed Lew Griffin series of detective novels, multiple collections of short fiction, essays, poems, musicology, a biography of Chester Himes, and several other books. This volume includes his novels DEATH WILL HAVE YOUR EYES and RENDERINGS, numerous short stories, poems, personal essays and articles on crime writers such as Patricia Highsmith, Gerald Kersh and others. "Ever among the most unconventional and interesting writers of crime fiction." KIRKUS REVIEWS