James Reich

BOMBSHELL: A NOVEL COMING IN APRIL 2013

admin — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:01:00 +0000

Soft Skull Press will be publishing Bombshell: A Novel by James Reich in April 2013.

More news and announcements regarding this will be made available as soon as possible.

KATHY ACKER’S 4H CLUB

admin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:08:54 +0000

Kathy Acker’s 4H Club is a recent article published by Bold Type Magazine, concerning Acker’s Empire of the Senseless, posthumanism, and more. It appears as part of Bold Type’s issue on Feminism.

Tattooed, mastectomized, pierced, body-built and crew cut, Kathy Acker rode her motorcycle along the wet seam of the posthuman, defying [...]

CONFESSIONS OF A REDEEMED BURROUGHS ADDICT

admin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:46:43 +0000

Bold Type Magazine recently published my article Confessions of a Redeemed Burroughs Addict, concerning the hagiography of William S. Burroughs.

“One of the profound ironies regarding William S. Burroughs is his facility of attracting revisionist addicts to perpetuate the Burroughs hagiography, the Burroughs product, and therefore, the Burroughs junk. I consider William Burroughs [...]

I, JUDAS – REVIEWED IN THE HISTORICAL NOVEL REVIEW

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:45:59 +0000

I, Judas is reviewed in the February 2012 edition of the Historical Novels Review – read and subscribe to the magazine via the link.

I, JUDAS

James Reich, Soft Skull, 2011, $15.95/C$18.50, pb, 224pp, 9781593764210

As Taliban fundamentalists dynamited the Bamiyan Buddhas, with this book Reich blows up the Gospels. How can I, [...]

TOWN BLOODY HALL: MAILER & GREER FORTY YEARS LATER

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:51:46 +0000

Two decades have elapsed since I first experienced D.A. Pennebaker’s vérité film Town Bloody Hall, and it’s a little over forty years since the spectacular 1971 ‘dialogue on women’s liberation’ that it records was staged. I had a VHS tape of it that I wore out and lost somewhere between the end of my [...]

I, JUDAS – BRAZILIAN RIGHTS SOLD TO LEYA

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:39:30 +0000

I’m extremely pleased to announce that LeYa Brasil have acquired rights to translate and publish I, Judas: A Novel for the Brazilian market. The novel will appear in Portuguese translation. You can learn more about LeYa by following the link.

I, JUDAS: A NOVEL – REVIEW

admin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:48:49 +0000

I, Judas: A Novel, by James Reich reviewed. Extracted from the review by Charley Dunlap, Oct. 25. “While reading through I, Judas, I often felt that I was reading the lost Gospel According to William Burroughs. The writing is surely influenced by Burroughs, not the random cut-and-paste that he became misunderstood for, but for the dreamlike, [...]

ON THE BEACH: DALI, BALLARD, NEIL YOUNG & CADILLAC RANCH

admin — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:09:22 +0000

ON THE BEACH: DALI, BALLARD, NEIL YOUNG & CADILLAC RANCH

James Reich at THE END OF BEING.COM

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 on the beach was [...]

I, JUDAS: A NOVEL – REVIEW

admin — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:41:48 +0000

I, JUDAS: A Novel by James Reich – Review by Rob DeWalt for Pasatiempo, The New Mexican

I, Judas, his debut novel (available Tuesday, Oct. 11), proves Reich to be a thoughtful and meticulous provocateur – a much-needed voice in contemporary fiction… Reich’s narrative bends time, blending modern history and stark, grotesque, post-apocalyptic [...]

JAMES CAMERON IS A PARASITE WHO CAN KISS MY ASS

admin — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:28:56 +0000

“JAMES CAMERON IS A PARASITE WHO CAN KISS MY ASS.” October 5, 2011.

Full disclosure: Personally, I regard James Cameron’s Aliens as a seminal example of the more-is-less failure of franchise cinema; I am unable to watch more than ten minutes of Titanic without being repulsed by the overwhelming impression of a mawkish [...]