Andrew Reichard

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I write fever dreams.

An author who lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan and works in publishing, my short fiction and poetry has appeared in 30+ journals and literary magazines, including critically-acclaimed genre and experimental journals like Exacting Clam, Black Static, The Collagist, Space & Time Magazine, Shoreline of Infinity, Into the Void, and many others.

My first book, the science fiction novella 'Vessel', was published in 2023 by Solum Press and experiments with themes of memory and time.

From 2023 to 2025, I self-published my military fantasy trilogy 'The Ashes of Amori.' Fifteen years in the making, it takes the world-building and adventure aspects of my favorite epic fantasy books and works into this template a dense, chaotic lite
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Poems of Fernando Pessoa by Fernando Pessoa
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House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
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The epitome of a great concept poorly executed.
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Geography of Rebels Trilogy by Maria Gabriela Llansol
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no on can speak
of the depths of the spirit,
unless they have a spirit
of fathomless depths

I'm not going to attempt a wade-in on the age-old argument of the line between poetry and fiction, especially not here, in connection with Llansol's enigmatic
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American Pastoral by Philip Roth
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The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
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Weirdly enough, this was my introduction to Roth back in whenever it was, and it's still my favorite of his. After a few, I started getting a bit weary of Roth the way I got weary of Hemingway (though Roth's rolling, building prose is much easier med ...more
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Justine by Lawrence Durrell
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When I started reading this (with little knowledge of what I was getting into), what I thought I was reading was highly stylized, somewhat Baroque prose primarily interested in tonalities and imagery. This was fine by me, and I was very much enjoying ...more
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A Dog's Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov
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While trying to explain this book briefly to my partner, I said that it was kind of like Frankenstein, except a doctor turns a dog into a proletariat whose first word is “pub”. Her correct response was that this was the most Russian thing she’d ever ...more
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The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
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I've been informed that historians love to quote a line that, it turns out, I also underlined. Because it's great: "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."

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