Along the Way

       Somewhere along the way, a lot earlier than i wanted to think about, alcohol's smile had become a grin, then just bared teeth. Whole chunks of my life had fallen into that maw. Friends, intentions, memories, years.

Eye of the Cricket
James Sallis
1997

Like Pleading Hands

         Things of the world try to connect. Prodigal rain issues from a sky into which trees rise like pleading hands. Days bear us lightly across the face of the world as every year the ground pulls harder, recalling like a spurned lover, ever more fixedly, how much it wants us.

Death Will Have Your Eyes
James Sallis
1997

Things Always Go

       In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory always holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you. The only help you'll get is a few hard drinks and morning.

The Long Legged Fly
James Sallis
1992

                   https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1098952-the-long-legged-fly

Diffcult Lives

At the time of it's original publication by Gryphon Books in 1993 Difficult Lives was a pioneering work of literary investigation. Sallis's subjects of Himes, Goodis, and Thompson were as enigmatic as they were out of print, and literary scholarship of their lives and works scant. As the title of the collection indicates, the three men led difficult lives, and although they forever changed the history of crime writing, they all passed in relative isolation.

Fantastic Fiction.com

                      https://www.fantasticfiction.com/s/james-sallis/difficult-lives.htm

Dark Reflections #15

Drive

Dark Passage

Miami Blues

Odds Against Tomorrow

Chinatown

The Bad Sleep Well

Casino

All Night Long

Mikey and Nicky

Naked Kiss

Reservoir Dogs

Out of the Past

Taxi driver

Sorry Wrong Number

Day of the Locust

Lady from Shanghai

In the Mood for Love

The Big Sleep

Union City

Crossfire

Bryan Cranston

 Drive

The Infiltrator

Breaking Bad

Cold Comes the Night

In Dubious Battle

Lincoln Lawyer

Trumbo

All the Way

Argo

Ground Pulls Harder

       Days bear us lightly across the face of the world as every year the ground pulls harder, recalling like a spurned lover, even more fixedly, how much it wants us.

excerpt from

James Sallis

Death Will Have Your Eyes

1997

Newton Thomas Sigel

 Drive

Blood and Wine

Usual Suspects

 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

The Conspirator

 Valkyrie

First Thing You Do

First thing you do, room, bar, restaurant, town or crib, is check and memorize the ways out.

James Sallis

                   https://lithub.com/american-noir-and-the-outlaw-lit-of-james-sallis/

Underrated Lost Classics #6

Brown's Requiem  James Ellroy
To Have and Have Not  Ernest Hemingway
Deadly Percheron  John Franklin Bardin
The Hustler  Walter Tevis
Stray Dogs  John Ridley
Bluebottle  James Sallis

Three Bedrooms in Manhattan  Georges Simenon

Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death  Tucker Coe
Airtight Willie & Me  Iceberg Slim
New York Trilogy  Paul Auster
Cool Hand Luke  Donn Pearce
Hammett  Joe Gores

Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #13

Rear Window

Act of Violence

 Chinatown

Body and Soul

 Drive

Killers Kiss

Croupier

Nightmare Alley

Grifters

Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

 Heat

Brute Force

Le Samourai

 Strangers on a Train

LA Confidential

Lost Weekend

Un Flic

The Man Who Wasn't There

The Friends of Eddie Coyle