UPDATE: This essay was nominated for a 2017 Pushcart Prize. Thank you to Bernard Meisler at Sensitive Skin. Sensitive Skin Magazine published my essay Jack the Ripper, Performance, Participation, Fans and Trolls. The introduction is reproduced below, but you can read the full essay HERE. “During the autumn of 1888, the …
Entropy Magazine published my essay Against Recycling. The intro is below, but you can read the full work HERE: “In The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, the 2012 documentary companion to his 1997 book, The Plague of Fantasies, Slovoj Žižek constellates a series of ideological vessels, from Starbucks cups, Coca Cola bottles, the Titanic, and Jaws, …
Laurence Rickels is our foremost analyst of popular culture’s repressed content, the sublimated presence of an uncanny canon of anti-classics that haunts our scene, in B-movies, in exploitation narratives, science fiction, camp, highly stylized and hysterical productions at the seam of juvenilia, trash, and high conceptual art. This methodology was …
Culture writer Alex DeVore conducted a flash interview with James Reich as part of the alt-weekly’s Three Questions series, ahead of James’ reading at The Forum, Santa Fe, with Matt Donovan, author of A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape (Trinity University Press). Read the Q&A HERE.
FICTION ADVOCATE’S Brian Hurley interviewed James Reich about his latest novel Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness (Anti-Oedipus Press). Read the Q&A HERE.
Artist and writer Pippa Tandy reviewed Mistah Kurtz! Read her thoughtful and perceptive review in full HERE. This is an extract: “The best way I can describe Mistah Kurtz! is as a critical intervention, an appraisal and an amplification of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The ‘unspeakable’ is spoken in a manner that reminds us of …
Galeano Lives! Painting a Zapatista Teacher from Schools for Chiapas on Vimeo. In solidarity with the Zapatistas and Schools for Chiapas, I dedicate this Mexican Independence Day to the recognition that independence, if it is an honest idea, is not monolithic, that it contains pluralities. The Zapatistas want a world …
Literary magazine site The Rumpus published James Reich’s review of Dodie Bellamy’s When The Sick Rule The World. Here’s an extract, and a link to the full review, that itself garnered praise from The Poetry Foundation. “Dodie Bellamy’s latest work, When The Sick Rule The World, is a series of biting, …
Published in full at the literary/cultural magazine The Weeklings: “Arthur Cravan Cravan’s father, Otho Lloyd, was the brother of Oscar Wilde’s beard/wife Constance; therefore, Cravan was Wilde’s nephew. Throughout his turbulent and transnational life, Cravan assumed and performed multiple aliases, of which several —Dorian Hope, Sebastian Hope and B. Holland— are …
James Reich’s third novel MISTAH KURTZ! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness is garnering advance accolades. The novel is being published by Anti-Oedipus Press in March 2016. “In Heart of Darkness, Marlow tells us that Kurtz’s voice ‘rang to the very last,’ hiding ‘in the magnificent folds of eloquence the barren darkness …
NORTHERN ZAPATISTA: New work at Bold Type Magazine. Bush-Clinton, Resistance to Neoliberalism, Hillary’s prevarication over TPP, what the pundits don’t get about the nature of the leftward swing of the north, understood through the indigenous revolutions in the south…zeitgeist, history and holograms… (Extract)…Now we come to the key to understanding …
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, …
Pete Campbell: American Sniper by James Reich was first published as one of a series of Mad Men ‘eulogies’ by The Weeklings, and was subsequently picked up by Salon.com and The Good Men Project. “It took me a while to like Pete Campbell. Campbell, as anonymous as a soup can, …
Looba and Titus a new short story by James Reich has been published by LitroNY. You can read the story HERE
It’s ninety years since André Breton — re Surrealism and the extravagant possibilities of ‘marvelous’ literature — wrote: “At an early age children are weaned on the marvelous, and later on they fail to retain a sufficient virginity of mind to thoroughly enjoy fairy tales. No matter how charming they …
Glenn Branca and the Lost History of Cyberpunk James Reich, Published by Fiction Advocate, May 29, 2014 I first connected to the Internet in 1998. There was nothing hip about it, no mirrorshades, no chilled Kirin, no hacker’s cant, no rude-boy antagonism against the frozen walls of malefic corporations, but …
ON THE BEACH – Dali, Ballard, Neil Young and Cadillac Ranch James Reich, First Published by The End Of Being, August 21, 2011. The warped pataphysical pocket watches of Salvador Dali’s small canvas The Persistence of Memory continued to mark molecular time from 1931 until the spring of 1974, when their position …
H.P. Lovecraft, Herbert West: Reanimator, and Boxing James Reich April 25th, 2014 Of the grotesqueries depicted in Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s Herbert West: Reanimator, beyond the ambivalent reclamation by the Anglo-Saxon war dead of Herbert West the Aryan “scientific automaton”, the “ice-cold intellectual machine”, the most appalling is the appearance of …
FREUD: THE PENULTIMATE BIOGRAPHY by D. Harlan Wilson, Reviewed by James Reich April 10th, 2014 Ceci n’est pas une livre… This is not a book. It is an algorithm. D. Harlan Wilson’s trilogy of Hitler: The Terminal Biography; Freud: The Penultimate Biography; and Douglass: The Lost Autobiography are Magrittesque artifacts. Certainly not biographies in the conventional …
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 …
