Delighted to have a note from Lance Olsen, author most recently of the fabulous Always Crashing in the Same Car: A Novel After David Bowie, in response to an advance reader copy of The Moth for the Star. Lance writes: “Every sentence on fire, James Reich’s cosmopolitan orphic novel alchemizes …
Award-winning designer Alban Fischer has designed the cover for James Reich’s forthcoming novel The Moth for the Star, publishing in September 2023 from 7.13 Books. This is a preview of the galley copy. Advance review copies in paperback and e-formats will be available soon. 7.13 Books will have copies at …
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 …
SPIN Magazine has just published its recent commission of a piece by James Reich on the psychology of touring performers and their support crew. The piece includes conversation with David Rhodes, Peter Gabriel’s elegant and innovative guitar player, rising post-punk artist Taleen Kali, Hutch Harris of the Thermals, and Dr. …
Novelist and short fiction author Anne Valente is one of the early readers of James Reich’s forthcoming The Moth for the Star (Sept. 2023, 7.13 Books). Anne Valente’s books include Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down (2016), The Desert Sky Before Us (2019), and By Light We Knew Our Names …
Announcing that James Reich’s The Holly King: Poems will be published on October 8th, 2022. The Holly King is a strictly listed edition of 28 poems by James Reich. This publication is only available direct from Stalking Horse Press, and will not be reprinted. “James Reich turns his considerable abilities …
James Reich’s psychoanalytic monograph on Wilhelm Reich (no relation) in the 1950s Wilhelm Reich versus the Flying Saucers is under contract with Punctum Books, acquired by founding director Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy and editor Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei. More details to follow.
James Reich’s sixth novel The Moth for the Star will be published by 7.13 Books in the summer of 2023. Charles Varnas is a murderer who has forgotten his victim. Set in New York, 1930, five years after the killing in Cairo, Varnas and his androgynous partner Campbell exist in …
Ecopsychology is concerned with the repressed ecological unconscious and its manifestations, with alienation from nature, and the neuroses rooted in that separation. My practice is founded upon the work of Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Carl Jung, and my central concept of the ecological uncanny. The Ecological Uncanny substack delivers ecopsychological …
Just finished: “Spring-Heeled Jim” is James Reich’s contribution to The Anti-Oedipus Press/Equus Press anthology on the centennial of James Joyce’s Ulysses. From the publishers: James Joyce’s ULYSSES was, at first, a failure. Its serialization in the American journal THE LITTLE REVIEW between 1918 and 1920 earned the novel (and the …
Great news: Laura Adamczyk and Natalie Peeples selected their 15 Best Book Covers of 2021 for their December feature, and the book design work that James completed in collaboration with Rob C. Miller on David Ohle’s The Death of a Character (Stalking Horse Press, 2021) was among the covers selected. …
It’s great to see James Reich’s science fiction novel The Song My Enemies Sing (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2018) among Stephen E. Andrews’ selection of titles in his latest Outlaw Bookseller video. Steve is the author of 100 Must Read Science Fiction Novels, and also details his fondness for work by Ray …
Author Jordan Rothacker (Gristle, The Death of a Cyborg Oracle) has put together an anthology for the 175th anniversary of the birth of Isidore Ducasse, the Comte de Lautreamont, author of the notorious Maldoror. The anthology is titled The Celestial Bandit and features short fiction by James Reich and other …
“The Prisoner” was published by Sensitive Skin Magazine, along with audio of James Reich’s reading of the piece. This is one of a series of short fictions under the working title Carrion Comforts that will be published this year. Please consider supporting Sensitive Skin with a subscription or by purchasing …
‘The Cowboy’ is a new story published by Sensitive Skin Magazine, and the publication is accompanied by a reading by the author. There’s an element of homage to Ed Dorn’s Gunslinger in the writing. “Here came a cowboy with sun-saddled skin. He had killed but once, but had killed simply, …
This piece was first published around five years ago by Bold Type Magazine, and was written to express north-of-the-border solidarity with the Zapatistas. I decided to revisit it on the 37th anniversary of the Zapatista movement. It is unedited from its original form. Northern ZapatistaJames ReichJuly 2015 “In the world …
In 1848, Marx and Engels asserted: “The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage-laborers” (p.6). This is to say too much …
The Song My Enemies Sing is a surprise attack on the science fiction consumer…a superbly angry novel.
David Agranoff, author and host of Dickheads: The Philip K. Dick Podcast has named James Reich’s The Song My Enemies Sing as one of his dozen best books of the decade. Agranoff writes: “I just had this in my 2019 list but I love Reich’s retro Mars world-building and meta …
Reich’s fiction is featured in the new anthology Santa Fe Noir, edited by Ariel Gore, and published by Akashic Books, NY. From the publisher:Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct …
