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James Reich

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James Reich is a novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is the author of The Moth for the Star (7.13 Books, September 2023), The Song My Enemies Sing, Soft Invasions, Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness (Anti-Oedipus Press), Bombshell, and I, Judas (Counterpoint/Soft Skull). His psychoanalytic monograph Wilhelm Reich versus The Flying Saucers is forthcoming from Punctum Books. He is also the author of The Holly King, a limited-edition collection of poetry.

James is a contributor to SPIN Magazine, and his nonfiction has been published by Salon, Huffington Post, The Rumpus, International Times, Sensitive Skin Magazine, The Weeklings, Entropy, The Nervous Breakdown, Fiction Advocate, and others. His account of innovations in British s
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I, Judas: A Novel

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APPEARING AT THE HENRY MILLER IN THE 21ST CENTURY CONFERENCE, OCT. 16-19.

James Reich will be at the Henry Miller in the 21st Century Conference delivering a paper on Henry Miller, Wilhelm Reich, and ‘The New Cult of Sex and Anarchy.’ The conference is held at the Asilomar Hotel and takes in both Pacific Grove and Big Sur via the Henry Miller Memorial Library. The paper discusses the nexus of Miller and Wilhelm Reich via Mildred E. Brady’s 1947 Harper’s article “The New

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James 3pm TODAY! Bookworks Albuquerque - Last call for Reading/Signing of 'Bombshell' - hoping to see you this afternoon for literary action!!

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message 7: by James (last edited Mar 15, 2012 08:30PM)

James If you live in the Santa Fe area, my band Venus Bogardus is playing at Santa Fe Sol for the SXSF festival tomorrow night (friday). It's an early all-ages show, but with a full bar for 21+ with ID. It would be great to see you there.


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James “Reading I, Judas, I found myself often provoked, occasionally disgusted or even enraged, and always riveted. It's not often that a book or a writer not only confounds my expectations, but makes me question a set of assumptions I didn't even know I held.” —Julie Powell, author of Julie and Julia


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James “This one'll have you clenched in a fetal position for a century, relieved only by the occasional orgasms of its mellifluous prose. You have to be strong to read this book: it rains fireballs." —Andrei Codrescu, author of Whatever Gets you through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments


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James "As Taliban fundamentalists dynamited the Bamiyan Buddhas, with this book Reich blows up the Gospels...Yeats' Second Coming is so optimistic in comparison. Reich writes beautifully... a gruesome enchantment...a new and personal understanding of that old-fashioned word blasphemous...iconoclastic and brutal prose poetry." - The Historical Novel Review


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James "Buy a copy of James Reich's novel I, Judas. Walk alongside Judas and Jesus, taste the wine, smell the whores, slip the noose over your head, witness the fear, self loathing and betrayal. Then... abandon all hope... of putting it down until you've finished reading it." - Dirt City Chronicles


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James "James Reich is a sensible product of 20th century literature, Faulkner, Joyce, Cortazar, Ginsberg, Dylan, -- and film maker Kenneth Anger...Best is his surprising ability to strike home continually with an exalted, consummate phrase, paragraph, even a word...a fascinating thinker...a genuine writer." - Charley Dunlap, Listomania


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James "Reich proves to be a thoughtful and meticulous provocateur - a much-needed voice in contemporary fiction. In I, Judas, there is a delicious lawlessness of prose, a revolt against conventional language and storytelling. Some may take offense to his insinuations; but isn't that often the case with great fiction?" - Pasatiempo Magazine, New Mexican


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