- Source: Pulphead
Pulphead is an essay collection by the American writer and editor John Jeremiah Sullivan. Pulphead has been named a 2011 New York Times Notable Book, a Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2011, and one of Amazon's Best of the Month for November 2011.
Sullivan's essay "Mr. Lytle: An Essay," which recounts his time spent living with a then geriatric Andrew Nelson Lytle, won a 2011 National Magazine Award and a 2011 Pushcart Prize.
Original Publishing Home of Pulphead Essays
The Paris Review
"Mister Lytle", published in Pulphead as "Mr. Lytle: An Essay"
"Unnamed Caves", on American cave art
GQ
"The Last Wailer", on Bunny Wailer
"Back in the Day", on Michael Jackson, published in Pulphead as "Michael"
"The Final Comeback of Axl Rose", on Axl Rose
"Upon This Rock", on a visit to a Christian rock festival
"American Grotesque", on the Tea Party movement
"Violence of the Lambs", on the coming war between animals and humans
"Peyton's Place", on Sullivan's house being used as a filming location for the show One Tree Hill
Harper's Magazine
"Unknown Bards", on the history of blues music.
Critical reception
According to Book Marks, the book received "rave" reviews based on twenty-two critic reviews with twenty being "rave" and two being "positive". On The Omnivore, a British aggregator of press reviews, the book received an "omniscore" of 4.5 out of 5.
References
External links
Review by James Wood in The New Yorker
New York Times Review
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Pulphead
- John Jeremiah Sullivan
- The New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
- Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
- List of Sewanee: The University of the South people
- William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
