James Reich is author of Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness (Anti-Oedipus Press, March 2016), Bombshell: A Novel (Soft Skull Press, April 2013) and I, Judas: A Novel (Soft Skull Press, Oct. 2011). His work has been published by The Rumpus, Salon.com, Sensitive Skin, International Times, The Nervous Breakdown, and others. www.jamesreichbooks.com
Two decades have elapsed since I first experienced D.A. Pennebaker’s vérité film Town Bloody Hall, and it’s a little over forty years since the spectacular 1971 ‘dialogue on women’s liberation’…