Most Popular Books by Phillip Reed

Intricate, intimate, difficult, and confrontational poems that push at the boundaries of selfhood, skin, culture, sexuality, and blood.

In the Internet age, Edmunds.com has emerged as the foremost authority on buying or leasing new or used cars. A key component to learning the industry''s insider secrets involved sending an Edmunds.com editor to work undercover at multiple car dealerships. That information, along with knowledge gleaned from countless buying experiences and numerous dealership sources, has been honed into step-by-step buying and leasing strategies. Many car-buying books give tips and advice, but this book outlines proven buying scenarios, clearly explaining the consumer''s course of action in simple terms. This complex and sometimes frightening process is demystified in a guide that covers the following subjects: * How car buying has become easier and faster than ever before * How to choose the right car for you * New car-buying strategies * Getting a used car bargain * Avoid leasing pitfalls and getting a good deal * Insuring your car for less money

Subverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural fact, National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed engages darkness as an aesthetic to conjure the revenant animus that lurks beneath the exploited civilities of marginalized people. In these poems, Reed finds agency in the other-than-human identities assigned to those assaulted by savageries of the state. In doing so, he summons a retaliatory, counterviolent Black spirit to revolt and to inhabit the revolting.

The “f**k” count is just over sixty. The images are screenshots. The metal is mostly nu. And the grant money’s gone. From the author of The Malevolent Volume and National Book Award–winning Indecency comes a gory new mutation in the shape of nonfiction and criticism. In 2019, Justin Phillip Reed’s romantic maiden voyage through the waters of American poetry and its communities ran aground in the barrens of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when he found himself with two years of writing time on the horizon and no social context to keep him afloat. In anxiety and estrangement soon deepened by global pandemic, popular fascism, virtual being, intestinal distress, and the obscenity of his own privilege as a university pet, he retreated to the comforts of horror films with no intent but diversion. What happened instead was this reckless, unprecious, in-process reckoning. Backdropped by sprawling cemeteries, soundtracked by too much Type O Negative, and totally hung up on cameras, With Bloom Upon Them and Also with Blood is a chase and a trip where lyric essays, ekphrastic poetry, and lectures grapple with alienation, professional disillusionment, perversion, and internal contradiction under racial capitalism through playful and critical encounters with horror cinema and cultural iconography.

Now available in paperback, Philip Reed''s latest building guide tackles what many regard as the ultimate expression of the ship model maker’s art, the Navy Board model. His step-by-step construction of a miniature 1/192 scale model of HMS Royal George of 1715 demonstrates all the conventions of Navy Board framing and planking. With the aid of nearly four hundred photographs, he takes the reader through every building stage. He covers methods of hull and deck framing, internal and external planking, and the construction of the complex stern. Reed also shows how to render the multitude of decorative carvings on the figurehead, stern, and broadside. A section showing, amongst others, his model of Siren, explains how the techniques used to frame Royal George can be adapted for ships of a later date, using single and double frames closer to full-size practice. This is the first book in many years to cover the well-known and sought-after early eighteenth-century Navy Board models. Here is an invaluable manual from which any model maker can benefit from the lifetime’s experience of one of the world’s leading exponents of the art of miniature shipbuilding.

This story covers six decades of life, not all good, but not all bad. I wondered over much of the world and found that life is what you put into it. I was never out to set the world on fire, I mostly just wanted to keep my ass warm and dry. My short stories are about working men, some times in places you wouldn''t want to be. No hero''s in real life, men just do what they do to see the sun come up, that''s life real life.

Zion is a Lightwalker. In a world where there is no color, only Lightwalkers can see glimpses and flashes of color. After his father passes away, Zion sets out on a mission to find the Sun and bring color back to the world. The path will lead him into the depths of the Dark Forest where something sinister waits in the deepest shadows. Before his task can be completed, Zion will be forced to face enemies around every turn of the Dark Forest and find revelation about the truth within his own heart. How much can he take without breaking? How far will the path lead him away from all he has ever known? Will the darkness be able to stop the LIGHTWALKER?

A laugh-out-loud rhyming story about Granny and the wacky lengths she goes to trying to remove a hair from her chin.

"Kookie awoke to find a problem on the floor, it was only small so he put it out the door!" Learn a valuable life lesson with Kookie Koala in this humorous and practical rhyming picture book that teaches children how to deal with problems instead of ignoring or hiding them. With wonderful use of rhymes, verse & wordplay, the message of this story is so strong and presented in such a gentle way that it will appeal to children of ages 2 to 102 years old.

Idiots ''R Us" has a wide array of annoying habits that every person has experienced at least once in their life either from someone else or maybe they will see that habit in their actions. Idiots ''R Us dishes out an compendium of the often inexplicable lunacy of human behavior. Everything that ''s ever irked us about other people seems to be included here: rude drivers, insensitive store clerks, uncaring spouses, even the lout who borrows your car for a "quick errand" and returns it with the once-full gas tank empty, singing along with the radio at the top of their lungs-even though they don''t know the words, and being the victim of someone who vows "I''ll only be a minute!" while running into the store for a gallon of milk, then makes us wait half an hour or more before returning to the car with countless bags of groceries! We all have those annoying people in our lives and at times they really drive us crazy with their habits, which they have no problem with annoying other people. This book was written for you to finally laugh at some of the annoying habit, instead of having your favorite person drive you crazy with their annoying habit!! If you need a good laugh, or feel one of your friends needs to read about their crazy habit, get your copy of "Idiots ''R Us" today!

"Kookie told a lie so that he didn''t get into trouble, but didn''t know now his problems were about to double." From the author of WIld Woolly and Kookie and the Problem. Kookie discovers that when you tell one lie it leads to another, and then another, until he has to deal with have a whole pack lies. Learn another valuable life lesson with Kookie Koala in this humorous rhyming story about the dangers of telling lies. Will Grandad be able to help him this time? What you get from this book: - Fantastic use of word play and humorous verse - Wonderful, illustrations with a cute main character - A story that will start a conversation with you and your child about telling the truth instead of lies Praise for Kookie and the Problem: "Really lovely story, great rhyming and amazing illustrations! Kookie is absolutely adorable!" "Wow!! It''s so rare to read a book with PHENOMENAL rhyming meter that actually makes sense." "I LOVED this book! I am amazed at the cleverness of the problem and it''s resolution! "