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.
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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
October 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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
Nothing says Orwellian like made up quotes from Nineteen Eighty-Four. Don’t be fooled.
August 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Nothing says Orwellian like made up quotes from Nineteen Eighty-Four. Don’t be fooled.
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PKD hangout on the Dickheads Podcast YouTube feed. @jamesreich.bsky.social talking his novel Skinship, PKD Malzberg and more...
Zoom Hangout Interview #6 - James Reich
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June 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
PKD hangout on the Dickheads Podcast YouTube feed. @jamesreich.bsky.social talking his novel Skinship, PKD Malzberg and more...
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Some books going with me to Rome tomorrow...
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@charleneelsby.bsky.social & Michael J. Seidlinger.
Amazing writers!!
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@charleneelsby.bsky.social & Michael J. Seidlinger.
Amazing writers!!
June 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Some books going with me to Rome tomorrow...
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@charleneelsby.bsky.social & Michael J. Seidlinger.
Amazing writers!!
@spmiskowski.bsky.social @jamesreich.bsky.social
@charleneelsby.bsky.social & Michael J. Seidlinger.
Amazing writers!!
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@jamesreich.bsky.social reading from Skinship, my top read of last year.
2024 BIG OTHER Book Award Finalist James Reich Reads from SKINSHIP
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June 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
@jamesreich.bsky.social reading from Skinship, my top read of last year.
May 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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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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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 (…
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May 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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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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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@bigothermag.bsky.social Thank you!
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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 (…
bigother.com
May 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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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@bigothermag.bsky.social Thank you!
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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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May 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Today, I have the honor of publishing FANTASTIC VOYAGE, the gorgeous poem cycle by Matt Bialer! #poetry #poem
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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...
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.
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May 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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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Happening today!
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April 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Thank you @otherlandberlin.bsky.social Berlin!
Skinship
by James Reich
Bearing the final remnants of humanity and its genetic archive, the last Skinship to leave a dying, distant-future Earth closes in on the Dragonhead Nebula and the prospect planet that offers resurrection.
by James Reich
Bearing the final remnants of humanity and its genetic archive, the last Skinship to leave a dying, distant-future Earth closes in on the Dragonhead Nebula and the prospect planet that offers resurrection.
April 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Thank you @otherlandberlin.bsky.social Berlin!
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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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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March 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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
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
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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March 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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
#stanleykubrick #film #sciencefiction
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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!
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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."
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March 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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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**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.
@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.
March 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
**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.
@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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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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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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Ragnarökin’ in the Free World: Twilight of the Gods by Kurt Baumeister – Bizarro Central
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March 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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...
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...
Wow! Get yourself a copy of @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social ‘s TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
Thanks to The National Book Critics Circle (TNBCC) for coverage of TWiLIGHT OF THE GODS. Links to reviews from @bigothermag.bsky.social and @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social and my 3/12 event with Christine Sneed at Village Well Books in LA.
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Reviews and More From NBCC Members - National Book Critics Circle
Freinds, we’d like to remind you that the NBCC Awards are coming up soon! We still have tickets available for the finalists reading on March 19 and awards ceremony and
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March 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Wow! Get yourself a copy of @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social ‘s TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
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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.
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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…
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March 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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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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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"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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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…
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February 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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...
"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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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.
Many thanks to @juliaelliott.bsky.social for the advance praise.
February 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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.
Many thanks to @juliaelliott.bsky.social for the advance praise.
Get thee to @plagueremedypodast.bsky.social where I shall tell thee everything!
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February 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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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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
🚨 New Episode Alert! 🚨
This week on The Plague Remedy Podcast, we sit down for a fascinating conversation with novelist, essayist, and journalist James Reich.
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This week on The Plague Remedy Podcast, we sit down for a fascinating conversation with novelist, essayist, and journalist James Reich.
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#Podcast #WritersLife #Literature #GenreFiction #SciFi #Uncanny #plagueremedypodcast
February 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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
If you think monarchy is stupid, wait until you hear about the papacy.
February 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
If you think monarchy is stupid, wait until you hear about the papacy.