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,[1] a Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2011,[2] and one of Amazon's Best of the Month for November 2011.[3]

Pulphead

Author	John Jeremiah Sullivan
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Essay Collection
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date	2011
Media type	Print Paperback
Pages	369 pp
ISBN	978-0-374-53290-1
Dewey Decimal	080—dc23

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[4] and a 2011 Pushcart Prize.[5]

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.

References

1. "100 Notable Books of 2011". The New York Times. 21 November 2011.
2. "The Top 10 of Everything 2011". Time. 7 December 2011.
3. "Best Books of the Month: November 2011".
4. "The Paris Review Wins National Magazine Award".
5. "John Jeremiah Sullivan Wins Prize, Does Paris Review Proud".

External links

• Review by James Wood in The New Yorker
• New York Times Review