23+ Ishmael Reed Books Images. Ishmael reed's inspired fable of the ragtime era, in which a social movement threatens to suppress the spread of black culture—hailed by harold bloom as one of the five hundred greatest books of the western canon in 1920s america, a plague is spreading fast. Ishmael reed's most popular book is mumbo jumbo.
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In 1960, ishmael reed, then an aspiring young writer, interviewed malcolm x for a local radio station in buffalo, and the encounter cost reed his job and changed his life. Comings and goings of a writer who has been told by critics that the has a chip on his shoulders, has gone too far, and who is. He has been a finalist for the pulitzer prize. He has taught at harvard, yale, dartmouth, and uc berkeley.
