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  "thread": {
    "id": 3149,
    "subject": "OT (basically) james sallis",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2002-04-15T03:26:49+00:00",
    "last": "2002-04-15T04:23:21+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0204-604@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "MBS 808",
        "address": "mbs808 at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-04-15T03:26:49+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) OT (basically) james sallis",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "I was just introduced to this author I know little\nabout... now he is best known for an unusual \"mystery\"\nseries he just finished...\nhe began, among other things, with moorcock at new\nworlds..\n\nAlso (here is the ontopic attempt)\n\nin an interview he said:\n\nThe quote I relish most is Gene Wolfe's, used on the\nhardback edition of Fly here in the States: 'Great\nwriting doesn't consist of doing something better than\nanyone else can do it, but of doing something no one\nelse can do at all.' \n\n\nanybody have any comment/recommendations? thanks in\nadvance"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0204-605@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Matthew Davis",
        "address": "matthew at michaelscycles.freeserve.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2002-04-15T04:23:21+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) OT (basically) james sallis",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0204-604@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "For more on Sallis - www.jamessallis.com\n\nSallis started off as one of the New-Wavers when he moved to London,\nassociated with the \"New Worlds\" set, and two stories in Harlan Ellison's\n\"Again, Dangerous Visions\". Thomas M. Disch wrote a story about James Sallis\nin the early 70s titled \"The Master of the Milford Altarpiece\" which\nincorporates material by Sallis himself, and is about writerly aspirations.\nThe English writer Iain Sinclair is a big fan of Sallis; he not only wrote a\nlong piece about him for the \"London Review of Books\"\n(http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n06/sinc2106.htm) he also included him in an\nexperimental film \"Asylum\" he made with Dave McKean, Mike Moorcock (in\ndungarees) and Marina Warner (in a hedge).\n\nAs a writer Sallis is somewhere on the pared-down Samuels Beckett/Delany\naxis: very good writing with exquisite apprehension of individual moments,\nbut I find it heavy going actually reaching the end of any of their books.\nIn fact Sallis edited a book about Delany and is also quite an expert on\n20th century experimental French lit.  I've read almost no standard\ndetetective fiction so I have nothing to compare Sallis's \"Lew Grade\" novels\nto, I'm afraid. Having moved away from SF in the 70s and 80s, he's become\nrather more involved recently as one of the book reviewers for F&SF\n(http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/depts.htm)."
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