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In a dark room, the light from your cellphone illuminates your face. Your friend has triple texted you. She can’t even deal with the amount of homework she has. How do you respond? Keith Reed talks memes and their appeal as a new form of language.
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Keith Reed
Creative Director/Webmaster

Keith Reed is an arts journalist and writer from Chicago. He studied English with a concentration in creative writing and art at The University of Iowa. Before joining Ampersand, he worked with The Daily Iowan and Little Village Magazine. Reed also cofounded, creative directed and edited “no small talk.” an online publication designed by people of color for people of color to make sure the right stories got their due attention. As the 2019/2020 Sony Pictures Fellow at USC Annenberg, Reed is focusing on the intersection of film and culture.