The Moth for the Star has a beautiful endorsement from acclaimed writer Constance Squires, author of Hit Your Brights (2019), Live from Medicine Park (2017), and Along the Watchtower (2011). Her short stories have appeared in Guernica, The Atlantic Monthly, Shenandoah, Identity Theory, Bayou, the Dublin Quarterly, This Land, and a number of other magazines. Her nonfiction has appeared in Salon, the New York Times, the Village Voice, World Literature Today, the Philological Review, Largehearted Boy, and has been featured on the NPR program Snap Judgment. She is a regular contributor to the RollingStone500: Telling Stories in Stereo. Here’s what she had to say:
“A Depression-era murder ballad as sung by a high modernist, an amnesiac’s love story as told by the Devil, The Moth for the Star is above all a sentence-by-sentence pleasure of maximalist language used to hypnotically readable effect. Stunning and strange, Reich’s latest whisks you up with the serious power of language into a compelling and utterly memorable world.” – Constance E. Squires
