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Jan 21, 2024

Ishmael Reed is the author of the play The Slave Who Loved Caviar, now available in print from Archway Editions.

Ishmael Reed is the author of over twenty-five books including Mumbo JumboYellow Back Radio Broke-DownConjugating Hindi, Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico and most recently Malcolm and Me and Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues. He is also a publisher, television producer, songwriter, radio and television commentator, lecturer, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition, or Neo-Hoodooism. A regular contributor to CounterPunch and founder of the Before Columbus Foundation, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley for over thirty years, retiring in 2005. Reed is the only person to be nominated for the National Book Award in two categories in the same year.

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