James Reich

James Reich

@jamesreich.bsky.social

Writer, Research Psychologist, Existentialist, Friend to Cats. Author of SKINSHIP, THE MOTH FOR THE STAR, WILHELM REICH VERSUS THE FLYING SAUCERS etc.

850 Followers 757 Following 107 Posts Joined Nov 2024
2 weeks ago
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I’m back on the wonderful Hermitix podcast to discuss sexual sadism and/of the president in light of Wilhelm Reich’s classic ‘The Mass Psychology of Fascism’ - do please check it out, like, comment, and subscribe to support Hermitix.

youtu.be/XHhHyscLRwI?...

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2 months ago

I am officially underrated in Amazing Stories!

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5 months ago
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SKINSHIP is out (there) now.

bookshop.org/p/books/skin...

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9 months ago
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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:

bigother.com/2025/05/19/a...

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9 months ago

Thanks, Kurt!

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9 months ago
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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!

bigother.com/2025/05/19/a...

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

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10 months ago
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...

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10 months ago
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Happening today!

anti-oedipuspress.com/books/skinship

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

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11 months ago

Thank you @otherlandberlin.bsky.social Berlin!

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11 months ago

Fantastic! Thank you!

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11 months ago
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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!

anti-oedipuspress.com/books/skinship

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11 months ago
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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

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11 months ago
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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

chireviewofbooks.com/2025/03/13/t...

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1 year ago
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**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.

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1 year ago
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

www.bizarrocentral.com/2025/02/26/r...

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1 year ago

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

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1 year ago
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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

www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/03/06/b...

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1 year ago
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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..."

bigother.com/2025/02/25/t...

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1 year ago
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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.

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

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

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1 year ago
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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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1 year ago

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

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1 year ago

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

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