John Reed

I haven't been able to update since COVID, but this as it stands:: http://easyreeder.com Author of A St…

I've come to believe that my grandmother literally poisoned those around her.

The East Village culture scene, as it developed through the late 1970s into the '80s, sought to decapitalize …

No longer will we hang our heads in shame. We will lift our heads high, as we hang ourselves in effigy. Polit…

In 2001, a project of mine inflamed the Orwell estate, and I was called on for radio beatdowns. Snowball's Ch…

I have an impossible memory of my aunt Martha. She is in a dance studio in dancewear-the 70s-tights and solid…

January 13, 2006. It's a title fight. Light heavyweight championship, World Extreme Cagefighting. They tap gl…

April 4, 1889. Spring came slowly to Chicago, with a whistle of winter from the Great Lakes and the sorrow of…

February 16, 2009. It's 58 degrees in Orange County. The parking lot of the Market Place Mall is a little dam…

First of all, I have to thank Daniel Levin Becker for the Sisyphean task of seeing this to publication. I kn…

So this is a timeline I put together about Orwell's Animal Farm. I wrote it in the context of Snowball's…

As we-like Lady Justice at her scales-weigh the virtues and policies of our presidential candidates, our very…

As we-like Lady Justice at her scales-weigh the virtues and policies of our presidential candidates, our very…

The cockroach was a cultural muse of the 20th century, but it's curiously absent in the 21st. We're looking a…

Book publishing: one year, a flood of similar books about a single subject. 2010 was a big Native American ye…

And everyday life? Meter is there too. On a long drive with the kids (5 and 8): "I was aiming onto the back p…

The first painting I saw upon entering " No Longer Art," a curious and elegiac exhibition at the Arthur Ross …

At what date on the calendar, at what precise location, did counterculture become pop culture? And who do we …

David Wojnarowicz. Two reasons you may not know that name: -our culture can't remember, can't deal with, can'…

The child sews beanbags. "Why not make a business of it?" asks the adult. The commercial impulse is automatic…

The Politics of Narrative The first lie: money. The second: property (and borders). The third: government. Th…

No artist is solely responsible for a work of art. Every creative work relies on cultural history, collaborat…

Michael Kupperman Simon and Schuster, 224 pages, $25 Michael Kupperman grew up in Connecticut, hidden away in…