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, …
JAMES REICH: BOMB-BLASTING THROUGH THE AGE OF NUCLEAR FOLLY: Interview by Frank Browning February 5th, 2014 Valerie Solanas plainly made a deep impact on the English novelist as he was constructing his blindingly brilliant and horrifyingly comic novel, Bombshell, a road story framed around a fictive lover and devotee of …
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 …