James Reich’s sixth novel The Moth for the Star will be published by 7.13 Books in the summer of 2023. Charles Varnas is a murderer who has forgotten his victim. Set in New York, 1930, five years after the killing in Cairo, Varnas and his androgynous partner Campbell exist in …
Ecopsychology is concerned with the repressed ecological unconscious and its manifestations, with alienation from nature, and the neuroses rooted in that separation. My practice is founded upon the work of Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Carl Jung, and my central concept of the ecological uncanny. The Ecological Uncanny substack delivers ecopsychological …
Just finished: “Spring-Heeled Jim” is James Reich’s contribution to The Anti-Oedipus Press/Equus Press anthology on the centennial of James Joyce’s Ulysses. From the publishers: James Joyce’s ULYSSES was, at first, a failure. Its serialization in the American journal THE LITTLE REVIEW between 1918 and 1920 earned the novel (and the …
Great news: Laura Adamczyk and Natalie Peeples selected their 15 Best Book Covers of 2021 for their December feature, and the book design work that James completed in collaboration with Rob C. Miller on David Ohle’s The Death of a Character (Stalking Horse Press, 2021) was among the covers selected. …
It’s great to see James Reich’s science fiction novel The Song My Enemies Sing (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2018) among Stephen E. Andrews’ selection of titles in his latest Outlaw Bookseller video. Steve is the author of 100 Must Read Science Fiction Novels, and also details his fondness for work by Ray …
Author Jordan Rothacker (Gristle, The Death of a Cyborg Oracle) has put together an anthology for the 175th anniversary of the birth of Isidore Ducasse, the Comte de Lautreamont, author of the notorious Maldoror. The anthology is titled The Celestial Bandit and features short fiction by James Reich and other …
“The Prisoner” was published by Sensitive Skin Magazine, along with audio of James Reich’s reading of the piece. This is one of a series of short fictions under the working title Carrion Comforts that will be published this year. Please consider supporting Sensitive Skin with a subscription or by purchasing …
‘The Cowboy’ is a new story published by Sensitive Skin Magazine, and the publication is accompanied by a reading by the author. There’s an element of homage to Ed Dorn’s Gunslinger in the writing. “Here came a cowboy with sun-saddled skin. He had killed but once, but had killed simply, …
This piece was first published around five years ago by Bold Type Magazine, and was written to express north-of-the-border solidarity with the Zapatistas. I decided to revisit it on the 37th anniversary of the Zapatista movement. It is unedited from its original form. Northern ZapatistaJames ReichJuly 2015 “In the world …
“This analysis of Lars von Trier’s beautiful Melancholia is the first episode in a series of videos based on the work I’m doing toward a book on the psychology, philosophy, and ecopsychic content of science fiction film. In this episode I talk about Melancholia through the work of Schopenhauer, Freud, …
I spoke with Jacob Singer for Entropy Magazine about my two most recent novels, The Song My Enemies Sing, and Soft Invasions, and the aesthetics of ambivalence. We also discussed UFOs, psychoanalysis, and writing as shamanic practice. Read the interview here.
“In the same way that Kubrick didn’t slow down or spell anything out for viewers of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Reich moves through the interloping stories in The Song My Enemies Sing expecting and trusting his readers to keep up…The surrealistic nature woven into the prose is engaging and pushes the mysteries to …
“Writer, musician, and publisher James Reich is a busy man. He’s also having a grand time moving from genre to genre in his fiction: last year’s Soft Invasions was a cerebral thriller set during the Second World War, while The Song My Enemies Sing ventures into science fictional territory. Bringing together a Martian setting …
“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 …
