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Om migALL THE WORLD'S A GRAVE:

A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Penguin/Plume, Fall 2008

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AN INSPIRED BIT OF BRICOLAGE ... THIS “REMIX VERSION” OF SHAKESPEARE PROVES FASCINATING AND ENTERTAINING. REED CLEARLY LOVES THE BARD. HIS PASTICHE CONTAINS MANY OF SHAKESPEARE’S BEST PASSAGES, WHICH ARE ALWAYS A DELIGHT TO REREAD. MORE IMPRESSIVE, THOUGH, REED FASHIONS FROM THIS FAMILIAR MATERIAL A STORY CONTAINING ENOUGH SURPRISES TO DELIGHT EVEN THOSE WELL VERSED IN THE BARD. —JACK HELBIG, BOOKLIST

I HAD JUST DECIDED TO NAME MY NEW PLAY “A YEAR WITHOUT SHAKESPEARE,” TO EXPRESS MY WEARINESS WITH THE RECURRING UNIMAGINATIVE RETURN AGAIN AND AGAIN TO THE BARD. THEN I CAME UPON JOHN REED’S NEW/OLD PLAY, AND I FEEL FIRED UP! WHAT A DRAMATIC RE-IMAGINATION IS HEREIN OFFERED US! —RICHARD FOREMAN

REED CARAMELIZES THE BARD’S PLAYS INTO A GREAT AND TERRIFYING WORLD, THE STATE IN CONTINUAL WAR. “ALL THE WORLD’S A GRAVE” IS A DIZZYING FEAT OF WRITING AND SCHOLARSHIP, AND UNCANNILY CONTEMPORARY IN ITS BREW OF CONSTANT TROUBLE. —LYNNE TILLMAN

THE LITERARY TRICK OF THE YEAR! —PAGE SIX, NEW YORK POST

I CAN’T QUITE BELIEVE “ALL THE WORLD’S A GRAVE”: SUCH AN ORIGINAL IDEA. —IAN MCKELLEN

The Whole

(MTV, Simon & Schuster)

Is this man who wants to blow up the classic literary canon taught to children in schools a menace, or a messiah? —David Shankbone, Wikinews

Reed's book is a swift and satisfying read, viciously funny, out of left field and ultimately betraying an affection for the deeply superficial, for all the Things out there who are "all things and nothing … " —The New York Post

John Reed excels in the realm of strange, and the author of Orwellian parody Snowball's Chance does it again with his latest work, The Whole. —San Francisco Examiner

The Whole is satire at its most inventive and buoyant. Meet "Thing" our deeply vulnerable, grammatically challenged, yet truly lovable MTV personality with enough precognitive power to save all of us from ourselves while the world as we know it finally implodes. —The Brooklyn Rail

Phillip K. Dick got nuthin on John Reed! A psychotomimetic tale that seeps through the pages, into your skin—by the end, you are stunned to find you've read a book, not watched a 3-D film! A Rubik's Cube of a book! Be the first on your block to know how it all works out! —JT Leroy

The Whole is layered and complicated and abstract in the way that a caustically brilliant satire should be. It is a deeply and enjoyably philosophical novel that is as brainy as it is base, destructive as it is innovative and sweeping as it is sophisticated. —Los Angeles Journal

Snowball’s Chance
(An SPD Best Seller, Roof Books)

While reading SNOWBALL’S CHANCE, one plays this terrifying guessing game of animal á clef: which animal am I? Which animal is my neighbor? Which animal is my enemy? Written in lucid, wise, funny, fable-prose, this book brings to mind Spiegelman’s Maus—the use of a playful metaphor to reveal truths we might otherwise refuse to see. —Jonathan Ames

In this vicious send–up of Orwell's Animal Farm, Snowball the pig comes back as a capitalist—or more specifically, an American Corporate Capitalist—and at first the farm animals prosper. But when they destroy the Beavers' natural habitat in order to get oil, err... I mean water, the Beavers attack, and you see where we're going here. This book has something to upset almost everyone who reads it, just like a good book should. —Dennis Loy Johnson

What if Snowball had his chance? An American novelist has written a parody of Animal Farm, George Orwell's 1945 allegory about the evils of communism, in which the exiled pig, Snowball, returns to the farm and sets up a capitalist state, leading to misery for all the animals. The book, Snowball's Chance by John Reed, is being published this month by Roof Books, a small independent press in New York. And the estate of George Orwell is not happy about it. —The New York Times

Snowball’s Chance is a pretty vicious parody of Animal Farm. "My intention is to blast Orwell," Reed says. "I’m really doing my best to annihilate him." He not only shanghais Orwell’s story, but amps up and mocks the writer’s famously flat, didactic style–that fairytailish simplicity that has ensured Animal Farm a place in high school English classes for the last 50 years. —New York Press

Orwell’s sacred pigs get a proper roast. … A crucial difference between Reed’s book and Animal Farm is an overall tone: SNOWBALL’S CHANCE is sly and witty, unlike Orwell’s solemn treatise. —The Portland Tribune

Reed's tale, crafted amid ground zero's dust, is chilling in its clarity and inspired in its skewering of Orwell's stilted style. Whether you liked or loathed the original, there's no denying Reed has captured the state of the farm today. —Jay Macdonald, Fort Myers News-Press

Snowball’s Chance parodies Orwell’s Animal Farm, dragging it kicking and screaming into the 21st century. — Publisher’s Weekly Daily

A short, brilliant dose of satire and political updating. … He's created his own masterpiece. —Creative Loafing, Charlotte

A Still Small Voice
(Delacorte, Delta)

Who would have thought that a 21st century Yankee could write such a lovely book about the 19th century South? John Reed’s prose style is a heady mix of restraint and exuberance. In A Still Small Voice, Reed combines the attentiveness of a naturalist, the factual accuracy of an historian, and the compassion of, well, a really good novelist. —Matthew Sharpe

A young writer of great promise. —Paul Auster

With gorgeous writing and a powerful sense of history, John Reed makes a stunning debut. You'll fall into this remarkable novel from the first sentence. Reed is a heartthrob of a writer, and A Still Small Voice shines with his passion. —Molly Peacock

John Reed’s A Still Small Voice is a beautiful and poignant novel. It lives in the details, which are so vividly and authentically right that they become part of our own personal experience ... our own memory. Reed has distilled and concentrated the Civil War into the joys, sorrows, and faith of a girl coming of age during a dark and dangerous time. —Jack Dann

First-time novelist Reed leads us poetically through ... two decades, setting vivid details of the Civil War against the passions of a girl saying goodbye. —Glamour

Reed shows real brilliance. —Lexington Herald-Leader

A Still Small Voice has discernable power. ... Truly magnificent. —Civil War Book Review

John Reed has woven a historical novel about hope and love that is touchingly told; A Still Small Voice verifies that if one has true faith in what one desires, anything is possible. —Bomb Magazine

Readers who enjoy an in-depth look at society during the Civil War will delight in John Reed’s A still small voice. The story is filled with insightful tidbits and an interesting perspective of life in a border town. … An incredible historical character study. —Harriet Klausner

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