This week, Publishers Weekly reviewed The Moth for the Star. It’s great to see the book being well-received by the trade press. The link to the full review can be found below, but among other things, they had this to say: Disturbing, distorted recollections build to a devastating reveal…an atmospheric …
We were delighted to receive a note from award-winning crime and legal thriller author Chuck Greaves who had some kind words for James Reich’s The Moth for The Star. Of the novel which publishes in September 2023 from 7.13 Books, Greaves says: “Hypnotic, brooding, and ultimately spellbinding, The Moth for …
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. …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
SPECTRE BY LAURENCE A. RICKELS, Reviewed by James Reich December 19th, 2013 Laurence A. Rickels, The Man With The Golden Pun, has turned his cryptic genius on the James Bond novels of Ian Fleming, specifically the occult, neurotic currents flowing beneath those works where 007 battles SPECTRE, headed—baldly—by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. …
50 REASONS WE’RE THANKFUL WE’RE GAY LADIES 2013 (#6) November 26th, 2013 Bombshell: A Novel is included with Bodies of Water by T. Greenwood, and We Are Water by Wally Lamb in After Ellen‘s 2013 list of “50 Reasons We’re Thankful We’re Gay Ladies” at number 6. What a fantastic pleasure to be included in such an illustrious …
THREE GUYS ONE BOOK Bombshell: A Novel Reviewed by Benjamin Rybeck October 10th, 2013 “So many great “Avantpop” works—Steve Erickson’s Amnesiascope, Jonathan Lethem’s early genre novels, most everything by Kathy Acker—are hanging out, waiting for adventurous oddball filmmakers to adapt them, bringing delightful visions of an American wasteland to silver screens everywhere! Bombshell, a novel by …
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW SHORTLIST: International Thrillers September 15th, 2013 In addition to a recent pick by Ms. Magazine, Bombshell is featured in the New York Times Book Review ‘Shortlist’ of International Thrillers. “Somewhere between the macho-hipster fantasies of Quentin Tarantino and the banshee-activist theatrics of Pussy Riot dwells Varyushka Cash…Now that’s entertainment.” – New …
BLACKHEART MAGAZINE Review by Kristen Valentine August 13th, 2013 “…A violent, blistering literary thriller with twists and thrills and plenty of complex characterizations. James Reich has created an entirely new kind of anti-heroine in Varyushka Cash – she’s both dangerous and sympathetic, a methodical killer on a quest for the greater good, and …
KQED ARTS – Bombshell: A Novel Reviewed by Ingrid Rojas Contreras July 29th, 2013 “When hunting for a summer read, the obvious thing to look for is explosions. Explosions and something a little sexy, a little decadent, a little radical. Moving cars, motels, an impossible goal, down-and-out characters. James Reich’s Bombshell is all of …
THE RUMPUS: Bombshell, A Novel reviewed by Nick De Pascal July 15th, 2013 “Bombshell, James Reich’s second novel, is an incredibly dense, rich, and well-paced novel. Within its 259 pages the reader encounters Chernobyl, feminism, terrorism, rendition, Valerie Solanas, Jane Fonda, Hiroshima, the Trinity test site, and much more. In the hands …
