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 …
Jonathan Evison, New York Times bestselling author of Small World, and other fine novels, not least Lawn Boy, and All About Lulu, read a copy of The Moth for the Star ahead of its September 2023 publication by 7.13 Books. Jonathan Evison says: An interrogation of the nature of evil …
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 …
