David Agranoff, author and host of Dickheads: The Philip K. Dick Podcast has named James Reich’s The Song My Enemies Sing as one of his dozen best books of the decade. Agranoff writes: “I just had this in my 2019 list but I love Reich’s retro Mars world-building and meta …
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 …
Bernard Meisler, editor of Sensitive Skin magazine has compiled an anthology of some of the best writing published by the magazine since its transformation from a print-based entity to it new online form. The anthology contains Reich’s piece on Philip K. Dick and Blade Runner 2049, alongside work by Timothy …
Earlier this year, I had a phone call with David Agranoff to discuss Beyond Apollo, the classic science fiction novel by Barry Malzberg. I wrote an introduction to the 2015 reissue from Anti-Oedipus Press at the invitation of editor D. Harlan Wilson. The interview has been made available as a …
Extracted from Sensitive Skin Magazine. This piece was published May 12, 2019. Link to full text follows. Wilhelm Reich’s The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933/1943) poses a question familiar to many Americans bewildered by the presidency of Donald Trump and the igneous qualities of his base. That the question was answered so …
“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, …
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. …
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 …
James Reich’s fifth novel The Song My Enemies Sing will be published by Anti-Oedipus Press in December, 2018. Editor D. Harlan Wilson has released some early publicity details, including praise from science fiction innovator Barry N. Malzberg, who calls the novel “absolutely astonishing!” From the publisher: We are excited to announce …
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, …
“Soft Invasions comes off like a psychoanalytic noir in the vein of Hitchcock’s Spellbound but it reads like Raymond Chandler with a greater maturity, vocabulary, and ear for semantic nuance. The sentences themselves are something to relish. They assert and turn, a one-two punch, baiting and switching the reader between …
Sensitive Skin Magazine published my partial analysis of Blade Runner 2049 entitled The Enigma and Exegesis of ‘K’. Like my previous work on Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? the essay focuses on conscious and unconscious textual relationships between the film and Dick’s theoretical Exegesis. There’s a lot more to add at another date …
Hemingway disclosed his secret, and committed to his definitive discourse on method, the only indispensable statement he made on writing, in 1926. The salient points of Hemingway’s style and method were contained in little more than one page. The writer seriously interested in Hemingway’s method requires only this, and likely …
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 …
The first time I read Susan Sontag’s Against Interpretation (1964), I found it exhilarating. I was twenty-one, or twenty-two, and working through an obsession with Andy Warhol that had begun two years before. In a self-serving manner, I embraced Sontag’s essay; self-serving in the sense that I could use it …
“It would be fine to see you in Santa Fe & if you possibly change your mind, address is: Hotel La Fonda, Santa Fe, New Mex. for the next two weeks at least. I keep thinking about that idea we had for a couple of murders.” (Highsmith, p.47) Patricia Highsmith’s …
“In his exceptionally well-written novel, at times lyrical, elegiac, and even mystical, James Reich asks some profound questions about time and identity. This fast-paced book is a meditation on history and human relationships which will keep you thinking and reading to the last page.” –Michael Moorcock The novel can be …
James Reich’s Inner Space Odyssey: Suburban Spacemen and the Cults of Catastrophe provides an account of the development of British science fiction in the 1960s, and is included in Bloomsbury Publishing’s definitive book on the fiction of the decade. The 1960s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction publishes in July 2018. From the publisher: “The …
