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My books in Powell's. TWILIGHT OF THE GODS now a staff pick from the incomparable Gigi Little! And thanks to Kevin Sampsell as well for stocking my books. Tagging my publisher. @jamesreich.bsky.social @powells.bsky.social

11.10.2025 18:35 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Nothing says Orwellian like made up quotes from Nineteen Eighty-Four. Don’t be fooled.

29.08.2025 20:07 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by DickHeads Podcast Zoom Hangout Interview #6 - James Reich

PKD hangout on the Dickheads Podcast YouTube feed. @jamesreich.bsky.social talking his novel Skinship, PKD Malzberg and more...

29.06.2025 14:56 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Some books going with me to Rome tomorrow...
@spmiskowski.bsky.social @jamesreich.bsky.social
@charleneelsby.bsky.social & Michael J. Seidlinger.
Amazing writers!!

18.06.2025 19:41 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2

YouTube video by Big Other 2024 BIG OTHER Book Award Finalist James Reich Reads from SKINSHIP

@jamesreich.bsky.social reading from Skinship, my top read of last year.

08.06.2025 15:01 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Skinship by James Reich is a Finalist for the 2024 Big Other Award for Fiction.

SKINSHIP is out (there) now.

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20.05.2025 22:36 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Announcing the Finalists for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Fiction! We’re excited to announce the finalists for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Fiction. The winner will be announced at the 2024 Big Other Book Awards Ceremony, which will be aired virtually (…

Congrats to @jamesreich.bsky.social whose novel SKINSHIP is a finalist for the @bigothermag.bsky.social book award! I edited the book and this is a very well-deserved accolade. Here’s the shortlist:

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20.05.2025 10:13 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks, Kurt!

19.05.2025 21:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Announcing the Finalists for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Fiction! We’re excited to announce the finalists for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Fiction. The winner will be announced at the 2024 Big Other Book Awards Ceremony, which will be aired virtually (…

My science fiction novel SKINSHIP is a Finalist for the 2024 Big Other Award for Fiction!

@bigothermag.bsky.social Thank you!

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19.05.2025 20:44 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Today, I have the honor of publishing FANTASTIC VOYAGE, the gorgeous poem cycle by Matt Bialer! #poetry #poem

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12.05.2025 21:12 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Twilight Of The Gods: Book Talk with Kurt Baumeister Join us for a reading and discussion with author Kurt Baumeister as he sits down with Joseph Salvatore (& James Reich, his publisher at Stalking Horse Press) to talk about his new novel Twilight Of The Gods.This is not your comic book trickster. Kurt Baumeister’s Twilight of the Gods is satire and alternate history on an operatic, cinematic, and cosmic scale, with a cast that transcends time and space. The grinding of The Wheel of Fate is heard in Valhalla, as it is in Berlin and Boston. Can Odin’s many schemes be undone? Who can rewire the robotic nightmare of politics and write a brighter future for humanity? Only humanity’s champion, the long misunderstood, supposed force of evil, Loki. This is a tale of fallen gods and failing humanity, of love lost and found, of parents and children, magic and sex, art and lies, good, evil, and the end of Fate. This is the story of Loki. In his own words.Humorous, urgent, and timely, Twilight Of The Gods asks us to not only read this story of Loki as an alternative history, but as one both eerily prescient and contemporary.

Thanks to Joseph Salvatore and @thenewschool.bsky.social for hosting me and @jamesreich.bsky.social of Stalking Horse on Tuesday. Had a fantastic time reading from TWILIGHT OF THE GODS and talking with Joe. Truly a special evening! event.newschool.edu/twilightofth...

10.05.2025 14:51 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Happening today!

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@jamesreich.bsky.social @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social

13.04.2025 16:15 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you @otherlandberlin.bsky.social Berlin!

11.04.2025 21:08 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Fantastic! Thank you!

11.04.2025 21:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

From Anti-Oedipus Press

If you would like a review copy of James Reich’s SKINSHIP, we believe it can hang with any SF novel published in 2024. DM us for a free paperback or ebook and consider nominating it for the @locusmag.bsky.social Award if you see fit!

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23.03.2025 17:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Enamored with, ambivalent about, or feeling weird about Stanley Kubrick? Well, you’ve got to read STRANGELOVE COUNTRY by @dharlanwilson.bsky.social right away!

#stanleykubrick #film #sciencefiction

14.03.2025 17:23 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Laughing and Forgetting: An Interview with Kurt Baumeister about "Twilight of the Gods" - Chicago Review of Books An interview with Kurt Baumeister about his second novel, "Twilight of the Gods."

Much gratitude to Jeremy T Wilson and Chicago Review of Books for this excellect interview and the kind words. There's an interesting serialization of my influences in here and so much else!

@jamesreich.bsky.social @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social

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13.03.2025 15:17 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

**HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY**
@kurtbaumeister.bsky.social

Kurt’s second satirical epic Twilight of the Gods is officially published in hardcover, paperback, and ebook today by Stalking Horse Press! Kurt has done something radical, funny, and moving with the Loki myth.

11.03.2025 13:04 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Ragnarökin’ in the Free World: Twilight of the Gods by Kurt Baumeister – Bizarro Central

Ragnarökin’ in the Free World

Thank you so much to Ben Arzate and Bizarro Central for this kind review of TWILIGHT OF THE GODS.

"The book pulled me in immediately...The novel has a great sense of humor."

@benarz13.bsky.social @jamesreich.bsky.social

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10.03.2025 13:29 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Wow! Get yourself a copy of @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social ‘s TWILIGHT OF THE GODS

10.03.2025 16:58 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Books of the Month: March 2025 It’s March and we’re reading. What are we reading, you might ask? If this list is any indication, a good mix of debut novels and new work from longtime favorites. Throw a literary journ…

Thanks to @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social for including TWILIGHT OF THE GODS in their Books of the Month and to Managing Editor @tobiascarroll.bsky.social for highlighting the rave review by @hughsheehy.bsky.social they ran a few weeks back.

@jamesreich.bsky.social

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07.03.2025 17:48 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

The Gods Are (Not) Okay: A Review of Kurt Baumeister’s Twilight of the Gods By John Schertzer What Kurt Baumeister might be asking us to consider in Twilight of the Gods is that even if the gods existed, we might be best off without them. We get a muted taste of tha…

Thanks, @bigothermag.bsky.social for this review!

"Baumeister may be more our contemporary François Rabelais than Aristophanes, in part because Twilight of the Gods, for all its play at being dauntingly nihilistic, is also a sweet and rollicking adventure story..."

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26.02.2025 17:47 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

My collection, AWRY, is available for pre-order at www.bridgeeight.com. Get a special gift with your pre-order.

Many thanks to @juliaelliott.bsky.social for the advance praise.

25.02.2025 16:55 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Get thee to @plagueremedypodast.bsky.social where I shall tell thee everything!

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#literature #horror #genre #sciencefiction #psychology #fucktrump #fuckelon

26.02.2025 00:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

An Englishman in New Mexico: Author James Reich talks genre, atmosphere and the election Podcast Episode · The Plague Remedy Podcast · 25/02/2025 · 59m

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25.02.2025 16:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks to @plagueremedypodast.bsky.social and hosts @stephensacco.bsky.social and @chlivermore.bsky.social for having me on to discuss my recent work, the uncanny, horror, and more. @horrorstudies.bsky.social

25.02.2025 16:24 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

If you think monarchy is stupid, wait until you hear about the papacy.

24.02.2025 03:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Something Can Die and Yet Persist Interminably”: A Conversation Around the Future of the Book with Ansgar Allen by S. D. Stewart Ansgar Allen’s fictions roam like ruminants in search of fertile land from which to graze. Over the course of seven novels, Allen has traveled in nearly as many directions in terms of both style an…

Much can still be done with the book and there are many ways for it to die... Something can die and yet persist interminably.
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23.02.2025 16:33 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

TWILIGHT OF THE GODS blurb of the day comes from prize-winning author and shuffle-board shark Jonathan Evison:

"Timely, hilarious, and wildly original, Twilight of the Gods is unlike any book you've ever read and finds Baumeister at the top of his game." - Jonathan Evison

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23.02.2025 15:22 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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