to writers. Bibliography Novels and short fiction The Freelance Pallbearers, 1967 Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, 1969 Mumbo Jumbo, 1972 The Last Days of Louisiana Red, 1974 Flight to Canada, 1976 The Terrible Twos, 1982 Reckless Eyeballing, 1986 The Terrible Threes, 1989 Japanese by Spring, 1993 Juice!, 2011 Conjugating Hindi, 2018 "The Fool Who Thought Too Much" (short story), 2020 The Terrible Fours, 2021 The Man Who Haunted Himself, 2022 Poetry and other collected works catechism of d neoamerican hoodoo church, 1969 Cab Calloway Stands in for the Moon or D Hexorcism of Noxon D Awful, 1970 Neo-HooDoo Manifesto, 1972 Conjure: Selected Poems, 1963–1970, 1972 Chattanooga: Poems, 1973 A Secretary to the Spirits, illustrated by Betye Saar, 1978 New and Collected Poetry, 1988 The Reed Reader, 2000 New and Collected Poems, 1964–2006, 2006 (hardcover); New and Collected Poems, 1964-2007, 2007 (paperback) Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues, 2020 Plays and librettos The Wild Gardens of the Loup Garou, with poetry by Reed and Colleen McElroy and music by Carman Moore (1981, 1989) Gethsemane Park, libretto; Carman Moore, composer (premiere, Berkeley Black Repertory Theater, 1998) Ishmael Reed, THE PLAYS, a collection of six plays published by Dalkey Archive Press (2009), as listed with date of premiere: Mother Hubbard (1979 and revised in 1997 into a musical version); Savage Wilds (1988 Part I; 1990, Part II); Hubba City (1989, 1994); The Preacher and the Rapper (1995); C Above C Above High C (1997); Body Parts (2007), a play developed from a work first performed as Tough Love (2004) The Final Version, premiered at the Nuyorican Poets Café in December 2013. Forthcoming from Archway Editions, 2024 Life Among the Aryans, premiered in full production at the Nuyorican Poets Café in June 2018. Archway Editions, 2022 The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda, premiered in full production at the Nuyorican Poets Café in May 2019, published by Archway Editions in 2020 The Slave Who Loved Caviar, premiered in a virtual reading sponsored by the Nuyorican Poets Café in March 2021; a full production premiered December 23, 2021 at Theater for the New City. Forthcoming from Archway Editions, 2023. The Conductor, a full production will premiere at Theater for the New City, opening March 9 and closing March 26, 2023. Non-fiction Shrovetide in Old New Orleans: Essays, Atheneum, 1978 God Made Alaska for the Indians: Selected Essays, Garland, 1982 Writin' Is Fightin': Thirty-seven Years of Boxing On