Jim’s most recent book, Bright Segments: The Complete Short Fiction from Soho Press, contains 160 stories from the sixties up to last year. The collection is dedicated to, and the title taken from, Theodore Sturgeon. Early next year Soho will publish Jim’s “mosaic novel” World’s Edge, five novellas set in a near-future, balkanized America. Portugal’s fado makes much of saudade, a yearning for something so indefinite as to be inexpressible; saudade comes to life in the space between the singer’s inability to express what was felt and the urgency with which it must be. Jim was thinking of that, he