James Reich’s 2024 monograph on Wilhelm Reich is one of the 2024’s Notable Books chosen by the Ancillary Review of Books: Wilhelm Reich versus The Flying Saucers meticulously explores the controversial psychologist’s last years, which are usually known as his “meltdown”, trying to find a rationale in Reich’s seemingly erratic behavior. …
“James Reich is an author who defies most standard genre conventions. While he doesn’t have the literary reputation of Brian Evenson or Margaret Atwood, James Reich is writing some of the best Science Fiction in the underground indie movement […] It is a deep ecological novel that combines genuine body …
James Reich’s new science fiction novel, the brooding Skinship (Anti-Oedipus Press, December, 2024) has received a rave review from the esoteric journal We the Hallowed. Eric Millar provides an excellent spoiler-free preview of the novel. Here are a few extracts: I could easily see Skinship placed in an old spinner rack next …
Stat®Rec recently published a wonderfully erudite and precise review by John Mirkovic of The Moth for the Star (7.13 Books). An extract is re-published below, but please visit the original site for the full review, linked below. Mirkovic’s review opens: In The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, the urban sub-chaos softly closes with the …
Shortly after the publication of The Moth for the Star, James Reich was interviewed by writer Jordan Rothacker whose latest science fiction The Shrieking of Nothing is published by Spacebar Books. They discuss the darker sides of modernism, music for writing, and the possibility of becoming persona non grata. Here …
Available to pre-order now, Anti-Oedipus Press will publish James Reich’s eerie science fiction novel Skinship on December 15th, 2024. Artwork was provided by Matthew Revert, and the editor is D. Harlan Wilson, founder of AOP. From the publisher’s website: Bearing the final remnants of humanity and its genetic archive, the …
With great pleasure, we announce the publication of Wilhelm Reich versus The Flying Saucers (puntum/brainstorm books)! James Reich’s psychoanalytic monograph is the first to examine Reich’s relationship with flying saucer, UFO, or Ea phenomena constellated specifically with Reich’s “cinematic self.” From the publisher: The convenient myth of Wilhelm Reich is …
CrimeReads recently published an interview with James Reich conducted by author Matthew Binder (Pure Cosmos Club, Stalking Horse Press; The Absolved, Black Spot Books). In a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss independent publishing, melancholia, and taking risks as artists. Binder describes the origins of their creative friendship and asks some fine …
Recently, author and publishing editor of Vol. 1 Brooklyn Tobias Carroll (Ex-Members, Astrophil Press 2023; Political Sign, Bloomsbury 2020) interviewed James Reich for a piece entitled “The Haunted Landscapes of The Moth for the Star.” He begins: It’s hard to find the right words to discuss James Reich’s new novel The Moth …
This week, the excellent CrimeReads published James’ piece on Ira Levin, author of Rosemary’s Baby, The Stepford Wives, and The Boys from Brazil, among others. In Levin, Reich finds a kind of kindred spirit, as different as their prose style are, in a shared concern for a Freudian gothic fiction. …
This week, Shelf Awareness interviewed James about what he is reading at the moment, some of the books that had the greatest impact on his life, what he read as a child, and books that he had concealed or pretended to have read. Here’s an extract, but the full interview …
Literary Hub published an essay by James Reich in which he discussed his orientation as novelist and ecopsychologist, and addressed the connection of psyche and place in several books, notably Albert Camus’ L’Étranger. The introduction is reproduced below, and the full article can be found HERE. “In addition to my …
September 12, 2023. James Reich’s lyrical existential horror novel The Moth for the Star is published today! We are indebted to acquisitions editor Kurt Baumeister and 7.13 Books founder and publisher Leland Cheuk for bringing this book into the world. From the publisher: “At once a gripping metaphysical mystery of …
The latest issue of The Brooklyn Rail finds James Reich in conversation with writer, publisher, and researcher D. Harlan Wilson. The two writers, who have known each other for several years now, discuss the perils of A.I. and the nature of ‘reality,’ God and Devil, Oscar Wilde, surrealism, literary style, …
This week, Publishers Weekly reviewed The Moth for the Star. It’s great to see the book being well-received by the trade press. The link to the full review can be found below, but among other things, they had this to say: Disturbing, distorted recollections build to a devastating reveal…an atmospheric …
James Reich’s latest piece for SPIN Magazine concerns the posthumous release of music by Zack Rosen, a talented musician whose life and work were affected by schizophrenia. Rosen. From the article: “I think your friend is schizophrenic.” That’s how Connor Grant recalls Sean Ono Lennon’s reaction, in 2016, to hearing the …
James Reich’s novel anti-nuclear novel Bombshell (Soft Skull, 2013) will be part of the conversation during Tel-Aviv University’s international conference Considering Violence 2023. Once more, we are grateful to Dr. Inna Sukhenko for including the novel as part of her discourse on De-emoting Violence in Fictionalizing Nuclear History: ‘Slow Hope’, …
Sometimes, a reader understands a book perfectly. Acclaimed writer Simon Sellars, author most recently of Code Beast (Wanton Sun, 2023) and Applied Ballardianism: Memoir From a Parallel Universe (Urbanomic, 2018) sent his thoughts on The Moth for the Star (September, 7.13 Books). I’ve been an admirer of his work, particularly …
James Reich’s 2013 novel Bombshell (Soft Skull Press) continues to cause ripples with its prescient fictionalization of the Chernobyl disaster, Ukrainian feminist resistance, and eco-terrorism. On June 8, Inna Sukhenko (University of Helsinki) will be a guest at the Università di Bologna’s conference “The United States in the Anthropocene.” Dr. …
We were delighted to receive a note from award-winning crime and legal thriller author Chuck Greaves who had some kind words for James Reich’s The Moth for The Star. Of the novel which publishes in September 2023 from 7.13 Books, Greaves says: “Hypnotic, brooding, and ultimately spellbinding, The Moth for …
