Dropping a Bombshell: Thriller author explodes nuclear tourism and genre archetypes – James Reich interviewed by Brianna Stallings. (Photo by Eric Williams)
August 1st, 2013
“Finding myself in New Mexico, cradle of the Bomb, is a kind of necessary existential perversity,” Reich said. “I love New Mexico, but in terms of Bombshell, that violent fury that Cash brings against the nuclear industry is, in essence, my own. The thriller genre is conventionally chauvinist,” Reich explained, “so Cash’s attachment to Valerie Solanas [radical feminist and attempted assassin of Andy Warhol] is intended to subvert that. Solanas is marginalized—within feminism, even. So, with Cash being born in what is now an exclusion zone in the former Soviet Union, she is alienated geographically, existentially and even to an extent within her mode of revolt.”
Read Brianna Stallings’ interview for The Alibi in full HERE