The Daily Cross Hatch Dispatch: Elijah J. Brubaker's 'Reich'
"I fully expect many readers to disagree with my interpretations of [Wilhelm] Reichs life," Elijah Brubaker announces in the inside-cover introduction to the first issue of Reich. For the majority of his potential readers, Brubakers preemptive apology is likely to prove unnecessary. After all, as he correctly posits in the intro to the same text, "[m]ost people who know of the man know him as a crazy character[ ]People like Robert Anton Wilson and William Burroughs have mentioned him in their literature," which is to say that, outside of those who have chosen to intimate themselves with Reichs history, the man is little more than a collection of quotes and ideas name-checked amongst leading counter-cultural figures.
Id be lying if I suggested that, before picking up these first two installments of Brubakers semi-fictionalized account of Reichs life, that my familiarity with the man extended at all beyond the bits and pieces attributed to him that have appeared in the works of subsequent artists and writers...
Read full ["Brubaker's Reich" here].