He is affiliated with the
New York Press and
The Brooklyn Rail. "Americans are extremely sophisticated in terms of narrative forms," said Reed in an interview. "We see it in commercials, we see it on TV, we see it in movies. But the narrative forms we're talking about are three acts, five acts, depending on how you want to look at it. They're all based on a Christian model of sin, suffering, redemption; which is not a large model."
A Still Small Voice A Still Small Voice (
Delacorte 2000, Delta 2001), Reed's first novel, is a historical novel based on the life of a girl growing up in Kentucky from 1850 to 1870.
Snowball's Chance ''
Snowball's Chance'' (Roof Books 2002/2003), Reed's second novel was a controversial send-up of
George Orwell's
Animal Farm, and ended in a cataclysmic attack on the "Twin Mills" (reminiscent of the
9/11 attack on the
World Trade Center). It became a bestseller in the field of books by independent literary publishers.
The Whole, or, Duh Whole and Reed's take on Orwell's
neoconservativism. magazine's senior editor Monica de la Torre and
editor-in-chief Betsy Sussler.
The Whole, Reed's third novel, parodied
MTV and was released in 2005 by MTV Books (Simon & Schuster). The novel described a gigantic hole that appears in the middle of the country, which engulfs four states. ==References==