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Passing Notes Unscripted - Ishmael Reed

The literary giant, social critic, and MacArthur fellow Ishmael Reed talks about his latest collection of essays, Going Too Far. markehayes.blogspot.com/.../pn-unscripted-ishmael-reed.html

U.S. Writer and Polemist Ishmael Reed comes North to say "Racism is still a major factor in American life and politics;" October 12, Montreal

Eminent African American writer Ishmael Reed will launch GOING TOO FAR, ESSAYS ABOUT AMERICA'S NERVOUS BREAKDOWN at a public meeting in Little Burgundy on Friday, October 12, 6 p.m. - read more on Yahoo!: http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/u-writer-polemist-ishmael-reed-123000036.html

Neo-Hoodoo, In Words and Music by W.C. Bamberger

Perfect Sound Forever online music magazine covers Conjure: Music for the Texts of Ishmael Reed: http://www.furious.com/perfect/ishmaelreed.html

Dan Torop's "Skydiving" based on Ishmael Reed poem

Artist Dan Torop's photography exhibition "Skydiving" explores the themes of Ishmael Reed's 1977 poem "Sky Diving". Read more at Art Forum: http://artforum.com/picks/id=26995&view=print

Bill Cosby on Ishmael Reed's Writing Habits

By Barry Beckham: http://barrybeckham.com/?p=53

 

"Do you know Ishmael Reed” he asked.

I shook my head to acknowledge that I knew theCalifornia writer and activist who had founded a small press called I Reed Books.

Newell Harry: 'Untitled (More Mumbo Jumbo: Crackpots ‘n’ Poems for Ishmael Reed)'

'Untitled (More Mumbo Jumbo: Crackpots ‘n’ Poems for Ishmael Reed)', an art show by Newell Harry, on exhibit at Roslyn Oxely9 Gallery: http://streetfashionsydney.blogspot.com/2012/07/oxley9-factory-49-words-colour-fashion.html

L.A. Artist Noah Davis: "Savage Wilds"

"The title Savage Wilds references the controversial 1988 play of the same name by Ishmael Reed, in which two women hosting a game show hire an African American comedian to be hunted live on television.  When rubber bullets are mistakenly replaced with real ammunition, the stakes for questions of spectacle and exploitation rise exponentially.  Davis’s paintings achieve

Jazz Giant David Murray on "Monster Love"

With lyrics by Ishmael Reed, "Monster Love" - originally written for Grammy Award-winning artist Macy Gray - will be featured on the new recording by the BlackMusic Infinity Quartet, as reported in The Louisiana Weekly: http://www.louisianaweekly.com/only-in-new-orleans/

 

Der Spiegel reviews "United States of HooDoo"

German magazine Der Spiegal reviewed "United States of HooDoo", featuring Ishmael Reed: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/kino-darius-james-untersucht-voodoo-erbe-in-united-states-of-hoodoo-a-845591.html

Ishmael Reed featured on David Hammons's "House of the Future"

"Across the intersection from the flagpole is another, even more ambitious project by David Hammons: an impossibly narrow Charleston single house. Situated diagonally on the corner lot and built to be not much wider than a single doorway, it is a pastiche of classic Charleston building techniques, with three types of traditional roofing and five types of siding.

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