Some thoughts from my morning walk: A Trans-Siberian railway of column inches has already been laid concerning the US Presidential Election of 2016, which makes dubious and vain the proposition of adding another sleeper narrative to the track. And yet, thoughts press. What occurs to me, in the fog of …
Anti-Oedipus Press, publisher of James Reich’s third novel Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness (2016) describes Reich’s latest, Soft Invasions, expected in December 2017 with cover art by Matthew Revert. Here’s the latest: Los Angeles, 1942. Psychoanalyst Maxwell McKinney and his wife Joan await the return of their …
Voigt-Kampff, the sinister test designed to detect the schizophenic ‘flattening of affect’ (33) of android psychopathy in Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/Blade Runner [i] (1968), is an extension of Alan Turing’s 1950 test of human-machine equivalence. Its purpose is to draw and cull the uncanny androids by exposing their …
Nicholas Ray’s 1955 cult classic film Rebel Without a Cause[i], starring James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo is broadly understood as a violent, tragic recapitulation of the family. It is—‘following’ abstractedly, at least in title, Robert M. Lindner’s 1944 book Rebel Without a Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal …
Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness has been named as one of the 20 Best Books of 2016 So Far by Cultured Vultures Magazine. You can see the fine company that the novel finds itself in over HERE.
UPDATE: This essay was nominated for a 2017 Pushcart Prize. Thank you to Bernard Meisler at Sensitive Skin. Sensitive Skin Magazine published my essay Jack the Ripper, Performance, Participation, Fans and Trolls. The introduction is reproduced below, but you can read the full essay HERE. “During the autumn of 1888, the …
Entropy Magazine published my essay Against Recycling. The intro is below, but you can read the full work HERE: “In The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, the 2012 documentary companion to his 1997 book, The Plague of Fantasies, Slovoj Žižek constellates a series of ideological vessels, from Starbucks cups, Coca Cola bottles, the Titanic, and Jaws, …
Laurence Rickels is our foremost analyst of popular culture’s repressed content, the sublimated presence of an uncanny canon of anti-classics that haunts our scene, in B-movies, in exploitation narratives, science fiction, camp, highly stylized and hysterical productions at the seam of juvenilia, trash, and high conceptual art. This methodology was …
Culture writer Alex DeVore conducted a flash interview with James Reich as part of the alt-weekly’s Three Questions series, ahead of James’ reading at The Forum, Santa Fe, with Matt Donovan, author of A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape (Trinity University Press). Read the Q&A HERE.
FICTION ADVOCATE’S Brian Hurley interviewed James Reich about his latest novel Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness (Anti-Oedipus Press). Read the Q&A HERE.
Artist and writer Pippa Tandy reviewed Mistah Kurtz! Read her thoughtful and perceptive review in full HERE. This is an extract: “The best way I can describe Mistah Kurtz! is as a critical intervention, an appraisal and an amplification of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The ‘unspeakable’ is spoken in a manner that reminds us of …
Galeano Lives! Painting a Zapatista Teacher from Schools for Chiapas on Vimeo. In solidarity with the Zapatistas and Schools for Chiapas, I dedicate this Mexican Independence Day to the recognition that independence, if it is an honest idea, is not monolithic, that it contains pluralities. The Zapatistas want a world …
Literary magazine site The Rumpus published James Reich’s review of Dodie Bellamy’s When The Sick Rule The World. Here’s an extract, and a link to the full review, that itself garnered praise from The Poetry Foundation. “Dodie Bellamy’s latest work, When The Sick Rule The World, is a series of biting, …
Published in full at the literary/cultural magazine The Weeklings: “Arthur Cravan Cravan’s father, Otho Lloyd, was the brother of Oscar Wilde’s beard/wife Constance; therefore, Cravan was Wilde’s nephew. Throughout his turbulent and transnational life, Cravan assumed and performed multiple aliases, of which several —Dorian Hope, Sebastian Hope and B. Holland— are …
James Reich’s third novel MISTAH KURTZ! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness is garnering advance accolades. The novel is being published by Anti-Oedipus Press in March 2016. “In Heart of Darkness, Marlow tells us that Kurtz’s voice ‘rang to the very last,’ hiding ‘in the magnificent folds of eloquence the barren darkness …
NORTHERN ZAPATISTA: New work at Bold Type Magazine. Bush-Clinton, Resistance to Neoliberalism, Hillary’s prevarication over TPP, what the pundits don’t get about the nature of the leftward swing of the north, understood through the indigenous revolutions in the south…zeitgeist, history and holograms… (Extract)…Now we come to the key to understanding …
The Anti-Oedipus Press reprint of Barry Malzberg’s Beyond Apollo is available now! It was a great honor to write a foreword to this new edition. From the publisher: “Two astronauts travel on the first manned expedition to the planet Venus. When the mission is mysteriously aborted and the ship returns to Earth, …
Pete Campbell: American Sniper by James Reich was first published as one of a series of Mad Men ‘eulogies’ by The Weeklings, and was subsequently picked up by Salon.com and The Good Men Project. “It took me a while to like Pete Campbell. Campbell, as anonymous as a soup can, …
Looba and Titus a new short story by James Reich has been published by LitroNY. You can read the story HERE
