John Reed (born 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of four novels: A Still Small Voice (2000), Snowball's Chance (2002) with a preface by Alexander Cockburn, The Whole (2005), and All the World's a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare (2008). He is working on his fifth book, currently called Tales of Woe, chronicling true stories of abject misery.
Born in 1969 in New York City, Reed is the son of artist David Reed. He attended Ha...
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John Reed (born 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of four novels: A Still Small Voice (2000), Snowball's Chance (2002) with a preface by Alexander Cockburn, The Whole (2005), and All the World's a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare (2008). He is working on his fifth book, currently called Tales of Woe, chronicling true stories of abject misery.
Born in 1969 in New York City, Reed is the son of artist David Reed. He attended Hampshire College, and received a Masters in Fine Art in Creative Writing from Columbia University.
Reed was an early contributor to, and subsequently an editor with, Open City, a New York literary journal published by Robert Bingham, who later founded the book series.
He is affiliated with the New York Press and The Brooklyn Rail. "Americans are extremely sophisticated in terms of narrative forms," said Reed in an interview. "We see it in commercials, we see it on TV, we see it in movies. But the narrative forms we're talking about are three...
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