I really wish I had read this book completely clean of any expectation--the amount of hype that I'd absorbed about it set up a lot of false expectations and I was sorely disappointed. Sullivan is not, contrary to all of the blurbs and reviews, a generation-defining essayist; never does he come close...
I had never read a single feature written by John Jeremiah Sullivan before buying 'Pulphead'. To be completely honest with you, despite Mr Sullivan being a regular contributor of excellent papers such as 'The Paris Review' and 'The New York Times' for a number of years, his name was unknown to me ti...
There is this strange thing with the US and its culture. We all know all about them and they know not a thing about us. If two people from different countries or even continents meet up, the conversation often gyrates around American (usually pop) culture. It’s the common ground. When I moved to Ame...
Not bad, but I don't agree with all of the rapturous reviews it's gotten.
Many really good pieces in this collection. A book worth reading. I wrote a complete review of this book here:http://mewlhouse.hubpages.com/t/30494a7 May 2012: Hard for me to understand any negativity about this book as a whole. I am more than half way through it and the only subjects Mr. Sullivan h...
A most amazing and brilliant work. I was totally surprised. The first half of Pulpheads prepared me for the reading of this masterpiece. Thank goodness my stubborn refusal to have a try at it did not prevail and a brighter mind prevailed. My total review is here: http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/51634...
John Jeremiah Sullivan is a free-lance writer whose work has appeared in GQ, The Paris Review and Harper’s Magazine. Pulphead gathers a diverse assortment of essays on various topics—each told with a generous consideration of the personalities involved, nothing harsh or mean-spirited. Sullivan has g...
There is this strange thing with the US and its culture. We all know all about them and they know not a thing about us. If two people from different countries or even continents meet up, the conversation often gyrates around American (usually pop) culture. It’s the common ground. When I moved to Ame...
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