www.johnreed.tv (soft launch, still working out the glitches)

www.alltheworldsagrave.com (coming in Feb.)

ALL THE WORLD'S A GRAVE:
A NEW PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

COMING FALL 2008, PENGUIN/PLUME

It's a shrewd, gutsy remix that brings the conscience of Shakespeare to our troubled times. —Spalding Gray

A FEW PREVIOUS OPINIONS

A pig returns to the farm, thumbing his snout at Orwell. ... And the estate of George Orwell is not happy about it. —New York Times

Free John Reed! Free the piggies! —New York Press

SNOWBALL'S CHANCE parodies Orwell’s ANIMAL FARM, dragging it kicking and screaming into the 21st century. — Publisher’s Weekly

It will take a great deal more than a fortnight's work by a smart-aleck anti-corporatist to undermine the most brilliant satire of the 20th century. —London Telegraph

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

Reed has managed to take a dated masterpiece ... and revive it for the odd, casino-like social and political world we're mired in today; in the process he's created his own masterpiece. —Creative Loafing, Charlotte

John Reed ... is getting what he never knew he wanted, hate from right wing groups ... —SuicideGirls

This book has something to upset almost everyone who reads it, just like a good book should. —Dennis Loy Johnson

Likely to offend almost everyone. … Witless parody. —Money Magazine

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! —Laura Albert / J.T. Leroy

The New York author has ignited a fierce literary debate; is it ever right to write a book modeled on a classic, that twists the original message into unrecognizable form? —The Scotsman

THE WHOLE is satire at its most inventive and buoyant. ... It would have made Boris Vian grin and Lewis Carroll blush. —The Brooklyn Rail

One of the guiltiest postmodern pleasures is to take familiar stories and update them to fit our genre-crossing, coke-snorting, contemporary selves. ... Passes faster than an episode of The Real World. —PopMatters

As brainy as it is base, destructive as it is innovative and sweeping as it is sophisticated. —Los Angeles Journal

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

A volatile new novel. … John Reed good! Orwell better! —San Diego Union Tribune

Orwell’s sacred pigs get a proper roast. —The Portland Tribune

John Reed excels in the realm of strange. —San Francisco Examiner