Ishmael Reed: 18 books
Mixing It Up
Taking On the Media Bullies and Other Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
A new collection of essays first published in The New York Times and Playboy. Reed tackles subjects including Oakland, eugenics, and domestic violence,
Another Day At The Front
Dispatches From The Race War
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2004
African Americans have been at war with some elements of the white population from the very beginning. In this collection of essays, his first since Airing Dirty Laundry in 1993, Reed explores the many forms that this homefront war has taken. His brilliant social criticism feints deftly among past...
The Last Days of Louisiana Red
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
When Papa LaBas (private eye, noonday HooDoo, and hero of Reed's Mumbo Jumbo) comes to Berkeley, California, to investigate the mysterious death of Ed Yellings, owner of the Solid Gumbo Works, he finds himself fighting the rising tide of violence propagated by Louisiana Red and those militant opportunists,...
Come Here Often?
53 Writers Raise a Glass to Their Favorite Bar
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Fifty-three of today's most esteemed writers answer the question, "What makes this bar better than all other bars?" "A reminder that no matter where you are in the world there is always a place nearby that feels like home." —The Paris Review A neighborhood bar can become as comfortable...
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