CrimeReads recently published an interview with James Reich conducted by author Matthew Binder (Pure Cosmos Club, Stalking Horse Press; The Absolved, Black Spot Books). In a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss independent publishing, melancholia, and taking risks as artists. Binder describes the origins of their creative friendship and asks some fine …
Recently, author and publishing editor of Vol. 1 Brooklyn Tobias Carroll (Ex-Members, Astrophil Press 2023; Political Sign, Bloomsbury 2020) interviewed James Reich for a piece entitled “The Haunted Landscapes of The Moth for the Star.” He begins: It’s hard to find the right words to discuss James Reich’s new novel The Moth …
The latest issue of The Brooklyn Rail finds James Reich in conversation with writer, publisher, and researcher D. Harlan Wilson. The two writers, who have known each other for several years now, discuss the perils of A.I. and the nature of ‘reality,’ God and Devil, Oscar Wilde, surrealism, literary style, …
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 …
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.
“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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
INTERNATIONAL TIMES: Malcolm Mc Neill interviewed by James Reich January 23rd, 2014 In February 2014, William S. Burroughs will not be 100 years old; like Ronald Reagan before him, he will be dead. The fingernails will have trailed out a little further and the hair may test subtly at the …
THE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN – Frank Browning interviewed by James Reich January 22nd, 2014 To read Frank Browning’s latest book The Monk and the Skeptic: Dialogues on Sex, Faith, and Religion is to eavesdrop on series of confessionals, and to be party to the converse positions and erotic agreements of Browning and Brother …
Dropping a Bombshell: Thriller author explodes nuclear tourism and genre archetypes – James Reich interviewed by Brianna Stallings. (Photo by Eric Williams) August 1st, 2013 “Finding myself in New Mexico, cradle of the Bomb, is a kind of necessary existential perversity,” Reich said. “I love New Mexico, but in terms of Bombshell, that violent …
