“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 …
“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 …
It suffices to understand the mirror stage in this context as an identification, in the full sense analysis gives to the term: namely, the transformation that takes place in the subject when he assumes [assume] an image—an image that is seemingly predestined to have an effect at this phase, as …
Some thoughts from my morning walk: A Trans-Siberian railway of column inches has already been laid concerning the US Presidential Election of 2016, which makes dubious and vain the proposition of adding another sleeper narrative to the track. And yet, thoughts press. What occurs to me, in the fog of …
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 …
Voigt-Kampff, the sinister test designed to detect the schizophenic ‘flattening of affect’ (33) of android psychopathy in Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/Blade Runner [i] (1968), is an extension of Alan Turing’s 1950 test of human-machine equivalence. Its purpose is to draw and cull the uncanny androids by exposing their …
Nicholas Ray’s 1955 cult classic film Rebel Without a Cause[i], starring James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo is broadly understood as a violent, tragic recapitulation of the family. It is—‘following’ abstractedly, at least in title, Robert M. Lindner’s 1944 book Rebel Without a Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal …
Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness has been named as one of the 20 Best Books of 2016 So Far by Cultured Vultures Magazine. You can see the fine company that the novel finds itself in over HERE.
