FICTION ADVOCATE February 1st, 1014 Two hundred years ago, in the spring of 1814, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin began her romance with Percy Bysshe Shelley—a romance shadowed by dreadful mortality, but which birthed Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus in 1818. February 1st is the anniversary of her death in 1851. The name Frankenstein as a unit …
INTERNATIONAL TIMES: Malcolm Mc Neill interviewed by James Reich January 23rd, 2014 In February 2014, William S. Burroughs will not be 100 years old; like Ronald Reagan before him, he will be dead. The fingernails will have trailed out a little further and the hair may test subtly at the …
THE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN – Frank Browning interviewed by James Reich January 22nd, 2014 To read Frank Browning’s latest book The Monk and the Skeptic: Dialogues on Sex, Faith, and Religion is to eavesdrop on series of confessionals, and to be party to the converse positions and erotic agreements of Browning and Brother …
SPECTRE BY LAURENCE A. RICKELS, Reviewed by James Reich December 19th, 2013 Laurence A. Rickels, The Man With The Golden Pun, has turned his cryptic genius on the James Bond novels of Ian Fleming, specifically the occult, neurotic currents flowing beneath those works where 007 battles SPECTRE, headed—baldly—by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. …
50 REASONS WE’RE THANKFUL WE’RE GAY LADIES 2013 (#6) November 26th, 2013 Bombshell: A Novel is included with Bodies of Water by T. Greenwood, and We Are Water by Wally Lamb in After Ellen‘s 2013 list of “50 Reasons We’re Thankful We’re Gay Ladies” at number 6. What a fantastic pleasure to be included in such an illustrious …
THREE GUYS ONE BOOK Bombshell: A Novel Reviewed by Benjamin Rybeck October 10th, 2013 “So many great “Avantpop” works—Steve Erickson’s Amnesiascope, Jonathan Lethem’s early genre novels, most everything by Kathy Acker—are hanging out, waiting for adventurous oddball filmmakers to adapt them, bringing delightful visions of an American wasteland to silver screens everywhere! Bombshell, a novel by …
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW SHORTLIST: International Thrillers September 15th, 2013 In addition to a recent pick by Ms. Magazine, Bombshell is featured in the New York Times Book Review ‘Shortlist’ of International Thrillers. “Somewhere between the macho-hipster fantasies of Quentin Tarantino and the banshee-activist theatrics of Pussy Riot dwells Varyushka Cash…Now that’s entertainment.” – New …
BLACKHEART MAGAZINE Review by Kristen Valentine August 13th, 2013 “…A violent, blistering literary thriller with twists and thrills and plenty of complex characterizations. James Reich has created an entirely new kind of anti-heroine in Varyushka Cash – she’s both dangerous and sympathetic, a methodical killer on a quest for the greater good, and …
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 …
KQED ARTS – Bombshell: A Novel Reviewed by Ingrid Rojas Contreras July 29th, 2013 “When hunting for a summer read, the obvious thing to look for is explosions. Explosions and something a little sexy, a little decadent, a little radical. Moving cars, motels, an impossible goal, down-and-out characters. James Reich’s Bombshell is all of …
THE RUMPUS: Bombshell, A Novel reviewed by Nick De Pascal July 15th, 2013 “Bombshell, James Reich’s second novel, is an incredibly dense, rich, and well-paced novel. Within its 259 pages the reader encounters Chernobyl, feminism, terrorism, rendition, Valerie Solanas, Jane Fonda, Hiroshima, the Trinity test site, and much more. In the hands …
“Reich’s novel is chock full of explosive ideas conveyed with radioactive prose. His heroine Varyushka Cash makes Lisbeth Salander look like a dimwitted Mary Poppins. This is dangerous fiction – handle with extreme caution.” —Isaac Adamson, Edgar Award Finalist, Complication “Bombshell is great stuff, and James Reich writes like a demon. He …