Category: <span>Fiction</span>

Category: Fiction

SANTA FE NOIR

Reich’s fiction is featured in the new anthology Santa Fe Noir, edited by Ariel Gore, and published by Akashic Books, NY. From the publisher:Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct …

“A 21st CENTURY MASTERPIECE”

Seb Doubinsky, author of Missing Signal (Meerkat Press, 2018), The Song of Synth (Talos, 2015) and a host of other luminous works, writes that James Reich’s The Song My Enemies Sing is “an intense tribute to all avant-garde writing, contained within its literary frame only to shatter it more violently. …

DEEP ENDS: A BALLARDIAN ANTHOLOGY, 2018

James Reich’s story “Shadows of Maralinga” – derived from his forthcoming novel The Song My Enemies Sing – appears in Rick McGrath’s latest anthology from The Terminal Press. From the publisher: Deep Ends: A Ballardian Anthology features 15 contributions from artists influenced by or inspired by J.G. Ballard. This large format, …

BOOKS BY JAMES REICH

These books are available from your local independent bookseller, directly from the publishers, or online. SOFT INVASIONS Anti-Oedipus Press, 2017 $12.99 Paperback $5.99 E-Book Click cover to order. “In his exceptionally well-written novel, at times lyrical, elegiac, and even mystical, James Reich asks some profound questions about time and identity. This …

SOFT INVASIONS: “NOTHING SHORT OF MASTERFUL”

“James Reich’s Soft Invasions (Anti-Oedipus Press) is a powerful fusion of noir, thriller, and historical fiction, sentence after sentence evincing great style and intelligence, its metaphors as refreshingly unusual as they are perfectly realized. Think Nathanael West, Graham Greene, and Joseph Conrad. With a pre- and post-Pearl Harbor bombing Los …

SOFT INVASIONS: NEW NOVEL COMING SOON!

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 …