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James Reich

James Reich is the author of the novels "The Song My Enemies Sing," "Soft Invasions," "Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness," "Bombshell," and "I, Judas" published by Anti-Oedipus Press and Soft Skull Press. He is the founder and publishing editor of Stalking Horse Press, and the chair of Creative Writing and Literature at New Mexico School for the Arts. He is completing a Master’s Degree in Ecopsychology at Naropa University. James was born in England in 1971, and has been a resident of the US since 2009.

Poem

The Peacock Feathers and 3 other poems

James Reich

The Peacock Feathers Whose eyes fanned evil from the house, petrol Blue at the edge of green, the lapis on the lawn Of the Raj, now we drink tea at summer’s end In a pinched house where a man has died, you’re So...
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Writing

The Prisoner

James Reich

I remember his gallows thighs. His cock swung like a rope. The camp was weighted with snow and silence, settled with barbed wire, starvation in its planks and silted soup. Among the black beds, in cover of crowding, we fucke...
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Story

The Cowboy

James Reich

Here came a cowboy with sun-saddled skin. He had killed but once, but had killed simply, in Santa Fe where the turquoise tells. The cowboy was young with a jackrabbit’s poise, a buck-toothed boy, spring-heeled and dun. It ...
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Essay

Blood and Soil, Trump and Incest

James Reich

Wilhelm Reich’s The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933/1943) poses a question familiar to many Americans bewildered by the presidency of Donald Trump and the igneous qualities of his base. That the question was answered so l...
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Blade Runner 2049: The Enigma and Exegesis of ‘K’

James Reich

Zwei Selle wohnen ach! In meiner Brust. (Two cells live in my chest.) ... I must go on being a Christian, acting out the role of a genuine revolutionary apostolic Christian, as a strategy: in order to overthrow the Black Iro...
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Essay
Essay

Jack the Ripper, Performance, Participation, Fans and Trolls

James Reich

During the autumn of 1888, the period of the Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel, London, an ephemeral canon of “Ripper letters” was established, notably the so-called “Dear Boss” letter delivered on September 27t...
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Essay

We Are All Alice B. Toklas

James Reich

Toklasization, being the condition of failing to materialize in one’s autobiography, or of being ghostwritten out by a biographer with more vanity than ours, has become the most significant cause of suicide and psychopatho...
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Previously, on Sensitive Skin!
The Earring
James Reich
I first saw the gold crescent of renegade freedom dangling from the lobe of a nameless hairy hippy Goy, his scrawny, insolent neck bound by a red bandanna. He leaned with outthrust...
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JD King illustration for Mesrine
Mesrine
Jacques Mesrine (translated by Catherine Texier & Robert Greene)
In late February 1972, all my friends finally ended up in block 2. The winter was harsh. We had more than three feet of snow. Right away, Jean-Paul Mercier became a close friend. W...
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Ballad of a Lousy Husband
James Reich
I should probably tell you more about the night Blue pushed me off the bar because that was really when our marriage ended. Sure, we stayed together another nine, twelve, maybe  f...
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Road Kill
James Reich
In an alley on the fringes of the march, Glory stuffed toilet paper bits in her ears and got out of danger, whispering to the baby in her tummy, running deeper into the alley for s...
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Sharon, painting by Alex Katz, 2007, oil on linen, 48” x 72”
Marine 1–10
James Reich
A collaboration between Max Blagg and Alex Katz for the Marine Series’ Exhibition Catalogue, Jablonka Gallery, Berlin, 2008. This piece is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, S...
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