Description
About the Author
Ishmael Reed is an essayist, a novelist, a poet, and a playwright, having won prizes in all categories. He is the author of Airing Dirty Laundry, Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media, and Juice, and a former professor at the University of California-Berkeley as well as at Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth. He lives in Oakland, California.
Reviews
"In the past 40 years, Reed has published more than 20 books and has also made his mark as an editor, publisher, critic, journalist, songwriter, librettist, and fearsome letter-to-the-editor writer. . . . Reed is among the most American of American writers, if by 'American' we mean a quality defined by its indefinability and its perpetual transformations as new ideas, influences and traditions enter our cultural conversation." -New York Times
"Just when you think that Reed is exaggerating or being one-dimensional in his analysis of racial issues, he'll open another page of American history and show you something new." -David Homel, Rover Arts
"There is brutal candor in Reed's argument, which often feels refreshing in light of the euphemisms and platitudes typically expressed in both polite discourse and the media's self-scrutiny. . . . Whether or not one agrees with Reed, one can only be entertained by his gleeful barbs and edgy turns-of-phrase. He names names and shames with derision." -Caroline Brown, English professor, Universite de Montreal for Montreal Review of Books
Book Information
ISBN 9781926824567
Author Ishmael Reed
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Baraka Books
Publisher Baraka Books
Weight(grams) 354g