He is the author of four novels: A Still Small Voice (2000), Snowball's Chance (2002) with a preface by Alexander Cockburn, The Whole (2005), and All the World's a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare (2008).

[1] He attended Hampshire College, and received a Masters in Fine Art in Creative Writing from Columbia University.

Reed was an early contributor to, and subsequently an editor with, Open City, a New York literary journal published by Robert Bingham, who later founded the book series.

"Americans are extremely sophisticated in terms of narrative forms," said Reed in an interview.

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).