Paper. New York: Atheneum, 1989 Airing Dirty Laundry. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1993 Oakland Rhapsody, The Secret Soul Of An American Downtown. Introduction and Commentary by Ishmael Reed and photographs by Richard Nagler. North Atlantic Books, 1995 Blues City: A Walk in Oakland, Crown Journeys, 2003 Another Day at the Front: Dispatches from the Race War, Basic Books, 2003 Mixing It Up: Taking on the Media Bullies and Other Reflections, Da Capo Press, 2008 Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the "Nigger Breakers", Baraka Books, 2010 Going Too Far: Essays About America's Nervous Breakdown, Baraka Books, 2012 The Complete Muhammad Ali, Baraka Books, July 2015 "Jazz Musicians as Pioneer Multi-Culturalists, the Co-Optation of Them, and the Reason Jazz Survives" in American Multiculturalism in Context, Views from at Home and Abroad edited by Sami Ludwig, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, pp. 189–199 Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico, a collection of new and collected essays, Baraka Books, 2019 Malcolm and Me, written and narrated by Reed, Audible, 2020 Anthologies edited by Reed 19 Necromancers From Now, Doubleday & Co., 1970 Calafia: The California Poetry, Yardbird Pub. Co., 1978, Yardbird Lives!, co-edited with Al Young, Grove Press, 1978, QUILT #1, Ishmael Reed & Al Young, 1981. QUILT #2, A special issue devoted to the stories of students at University of California Berkeley. Ishmael Reed & Al Young, 1981. The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology, Selections from the American Book Awards 1980–1990, co-edited with Kathryn Trueblood and Shawn Wong, W. W. Norton, 1991, The HarperCollins Literary Mosaic Series, General Editor of four anthologies edited by Gerald Vizenor, Shawn Wong, Nicolas Kanellos and Al Young, 1995–96 MultiAmerica: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace, Viking/Penguin, 1997, From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900–2001, Da Capo Press, 2003, Pow Wow: 63 Writers Address the Fault Lines in the American Experience, short fiction anthology edited with Carla Blank, Da Capo Press, 2009, Black Hollywood Unchained, non-fiction anthology edited and with an Introduction by Reed, Third World Press, October 2015, Bigotry on Broadway, co-edited with Carla Blank, with an Introduction by Reed, Baraka Books, September 2021 Discography Kip Hanrahan has released three albums featuring lyrics by Reed: Conjure: Music for the Texts of Ishmael Reed (American Clave, 1985) Conjure: Cab Calloway Stands in for the Moon (American Clave, 1985) Conjure: Bad Mouth (American Clave, 2005) David Murray has released