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Pulphead: Essays

In Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan takes readers on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten culture.

Simultaneously channeling the gonzo energy of Hunter S. Thompson and the wit and insight of Joan Didion, Sullivan shows us (with a laidback, erudite Southern charm that’s all his own) how we really (no, really) live now.

"Pulphead is the best, and most important, collection of magazine writing since [David Foster] Wallace's A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again … Sullivan's writing is a bizarrely coherent, novel, and generous pastiche of the biblical, the demotic, the regionally gusty and the erudite.” -- New York Times Book Review