Potato Tree - Tapa blanda

Provides forty-one short stories by James Sallis, and with his poetic language, vivid imagination, and emotions, he shares such tales as "How's Death?," "Men's Club," "Jane Crying," and "Potato Tree."

James Sallis has published short stories, poems, translations, essays and other nonfiction in publications ranging from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the New York Times to The Georgia Review. His books include eleven novels, multiple collections of stories, a biography of Chester Himes, three books of musicology, and a translation of Raymond Queneau's novel Saint Glinglin. For several years he wrote a regular books column for the Boston Globe, and still reviews regularly for the L.A. Times, Book World and others, as well as contributing a quarterly review column to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Jim teaches at Phoenix College in Arizona and at Otis College in L.A. He also works as a musician, performing solo, as a sideman with various bluegrass groups and singer-songwriters, and as a founding member of Three-Legged Dog, a trio of multi-instrumentalists.