Tag: <span>Joan Didion</span>

Tag: Joan Didion

SOFT INVASIONS: “NOTHING SHORT OF MASTERFUL”

“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 …