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Wildly uneven There are 14 essays in the book By my count, there are five excellent essays including one bonafide genius essay , three good essays, and six essays that did nothing for me, including one essay that, after I d finished the book and was looking back over the table of contents, I couldn t for the life of me remember reading That genius essay I mentioned is Violence of the Lambs, which is principally about the increase in unexplainable animal attacks in recent years Stingrays have sta [...]
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 America for a year when I was 18, I didn t suffer a severe cultural shock although I was a little frightened by the size of hamburgers I knew the TV shows those kids watched, the music they listened to, and th [...]
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 gentle, easy going flow as if listening to a friend Good stuff Entries preceded by a might be of interest to those musically inclined or with an interest in music Upon this Rock A fond recollection of an [...]
Let s get one thing out of the way John Jeremiah Sullivan can write Really well About almost anything So, already, that makes this compilation of long form essays worth exploring But then there s the way that for someone of our generation , he captures the zeitgeist of our youth so well, especially the guilty pleasures There are a lot of moments where I said wow I was at that Axl Rose show at Hammerstein Ballroom that night he made his come back wow, I loved The Real World, and Mike Miz and Cher [...]
one for the plane going over to the States I thought I d better read something American, and this has been on my to read list for two years and finally came in at the library.One measure of a non fiction book could be what it makes you go and do After or during this one I was looking up Native American cave paintings in Tennessee, downloading Joe Higgs Life of Contradiction, listening to Billie Jean and contemplating Disney s attempts at whitewashed utopia The book is full of fascinating essays [...]
This winter I ve been reading a lot of nonfiction collections, hitting a lot of big names along the way Updike, Hitchens, Schama, Didion John Jeremiah Sullivan was someone I had never heard of until I stumbled across this collection in the bookstore, but I m happy to report that his writing has an idiosyncratic charm that puts him right up there with the big guys.As with any collection of essays, there are a few duds in this collection Sullivan s pieces on Axl Rose and on Michael Jackson seemed [...]
The good about PULPHEAD is really great and the bad about it is not exactly bad either It never is boring, stupid or offensive It s just that is starts with such a bang and awed me with the profound and moving vision John Jeremiah Sullivan has of America, so when the collection abruptly stops doing that a little bit past halfway through and start talking about 19th century botanists and cave paintings, I ve gradually lost interest Not that these subjects are not interesting, but they don t have [...]
I wanted to give this guy five stars, but the two stories in the middle were snoozers and a few of the endings were rushed and, accordingly, awful Of the latter, the ending to the essay about Axl Rose such a good essay was so disappointingly bad that I almost didn t like the essay What I like most about this guy is that he isn t a sarcastic, cynical prick After having just read a few stories by George Saunders, I appreciate this fact and Sullivan even Three things From the first essay, about Cr [...]
nice new voice of essays dealing mostly with the weirdness of low class usa christian rock festivel big brother s near death experience author apprenticing himself to andrew lytle sewanee review driving around after katrina real life road rules aftermarket business tea party marches, and on and on things to like about jjs smart, includes interesting details in his narrative rafinesque became really fat after getting a job at transylvania university looks in to interesting phenomenon and what rea [...]
It s always a good sign when you re reading a piece of non fiction to find yourself adding titles that the writer mentions to your wish list Or when you realise that there s a whole subject area that you could just do with reading around in general in my case, Disney and bizarrely the Blues This is a rich, thoughtful immersion in a choice spread of subjects including pop culture, history, politics, environment and music Oh, and one sort of very promising semi SF riff I m not sure how closely th [...]
Non fiction essays Excellent writer Humorous sometimes I laughed out load Contains life wisdom The author is a person I would like to know He has a wide range of interests, especially music and performers I read some of the essays aloud to Elizabeth I ll continue to read his work Thank you, Brandon, for recommending this book.
msarki.tumblr post 1449817This morning on the CBS Morning Show Charlie Rose was reporting on an exotic animal compound in Oklahoma City and how dangerous to humans it could be since it is situated in the heart of the country s Tornado Alley There are over one hundred lions and tigers fenced in together in this so called largest rescue reserve in the nation The compound s owner expressed his displeasure in the government s possible cracking down and limiting of these types of operations, and he t [...]
Syns denne kunne v rt dobbel s lang, eller kanskje evigvarende Eventuelt kunne forfatteren flyttet inn i boden min og skrevet essays bare til meg , hvis noen kan f boden min til h res interresant ut i essayformat er det sannsynligvis John Jeremiah Sullivan.
John Jeremiah Sullivan s essays have featured in the Paris Review, New York Times and G.Q This is an eclectic mix of light and deep pieces Sullivan speaks to the tenuousness of pop culture He wants to hold onto things that little bit longer For example his piece on the writer Mr Lytle is an elegy and an attempt to hold him in the world a little bit longer He doesn t like journalists who give a clear judgement, he says he likes seeking out places of ambiguity and crawling around in them Sullivan [...]
Reading these stories brought to mind the image of Chuck Klosterman kidnapped, stuck in a hotel room, pumped full of Ambien, and forced to write less about music pop culture That s not as much of a criticism as it sounds, I suppose, because Klosterman is frequently eager to the point of breathlessness in his essays and I find myself wishing he d slow down and take his time Well, I mean I used to think that until I got my hands on this book that approximates the results of said experiment and fou [...]
Deixando devidamente registrada a leitura desse livro, que aconteceu em 2014 Quase todos esses ensaios sobre formas de cultura alta , baixa , m sica Axl Rose, Michael Jackson, um festival de rock crist o , literatura s um, e trata se na verdade da vida de um escritor sulista americano espec fico , TV, arte rupestre americana s o fant sticos, com o melhor de todos talvez sendo o sobre reality shows, ou o sobre MJ Ao menos s o os que, dois anos depois, mais me v m e v m mente.Uma das maiores quali [...]
When an essay on a Christian Rock festival starts off a bit slowly, then suddenly sneaks up on you, you know you ve got a skilled essayist grabbing your attention The first few essays from John Jeremiah Sullivan s collection of essays, Pulphead, do exactly that keep your attention focused on his narrative shifts and vivid descriptions, all the while aware that the subject matter may or may not be of interestHalfway through, however, he lost me The last 3 essays were no longer exercises in narrat [...]
No need to add much of a review, since Goodreaders have already done such a fine job of articulating the same thoughts I had while reading Pulphead There IS an uneven ness here There IS a desire to reach for a red pen and help John Jeremiah s prose find a quicker way to get at what John Jeremiah is trying to say I wonder Does he really go by John Jeremiah Do friends leave phone messages for John Jeremiah Do baristas call out John Jeremiah when his coffee is ready And, most notably, there is a br [...]
They weren t lying re all the kudos and hype draped all over this book when it came out last fall This is interesting, engaging, even at times amazing stuff All over the map subject wise, Sullivan seems well equipped to fill the gaping hole left in the non fiction essay world when David Foster Wallace died a few years ago I can t wait to read whatever he writes next
The Wallace comparisons are made often than they ought to be, and there is a certain line of comparison Sullivan, after all, is the sort of guy who regularly flip flops in his writing from academic perspective to ordinary as all fuck perspective, and writes extensively on Axl Rose And they manage to publish books of essays, not something a lot of folks are doing nowadays, and especially not something a lot of folks who actually have anything interesting to say are doing nowadays But there s a b [...]
It took me a while to get around to this I love this genre, but my love of it has led to way disappointments than I experience while reading, say, fiction John Jeremiah Sullivan s Pulphead seems to have drawn an endless number of comparisons to other essay writers Some, to mostly uninspiring writers like Chuck Klosterman, have not caused me much excitement Others, to Hunter S Thompson or David Foster Wallace, are what led me to finally sitting down and reading this thing It turns out that these [...]
I almost feel bad for only giving it 3 stars I thought a couple of the essays were really very good, but they just couldn t make up for how mediocre I found the rest I really enjoyed Feet in Smoke, Michael, Unnamed Caves, Violence of the Lambs and Peyton s Place, but the rest were pretty forgettable Take my rating with a grain of salt, I am unusually hard on essay collections short story collections as well.
I ve been meaning to post about this smart collection of essays Pulphead from John Jeremiah Sullivan for some time but then I find and read another essay by him and would rather just read him than talk about him I think I ve finally exhausted what s available out there And now I m in line behind dozens of other writers and readers who have already championed this guy s work, someone whose prose is so intimate and immediate that I feel as if we have a relationship.He writes in the tradition of th [...]
It s not worth pointing out which essays disappointed me, because there were really only a couple, and so many of the others just totally knocked me out.In the best ones, Sullivan gets deeply personal, demonstrating the empathy and humanity that lifts these pieces above your standard weird American culture fare This is evident from the first essay, Upon This Rock, about his trip to a Christian rock festival And anyone who can write about a Tea Party rally with care, without ridicule, as he manag [...]
This collection contains essays of varying quality There is at least one 5 star work in here, many 4 star, still of the 3 star variety, and unfortunately a couple that were worse than that, so consider the rating an average across the board It s hard not to compare any young, intelligent, funny, contemporary essayist to David Foster Wallace, and in the case of Sullivan this comparison is even difficult to avoid which is unfortunate as he is a very good writer standing in the shadow of a great [...]
I didn t have time to finish this book over my winter break because I was so mind blown by every essay that I took my sweet time absorbing it So much time that I had two essays left to go by the time I had to return to college My mother forced me to leave the book behind because I told her she had to read the Michael Jackson essay I don t regret it Everyone needs to read this book I don t even feel horrible for accidentally leaving one of my copies in a plane seat pocket because at least some lu [...]
Fantastic collection of odds and sods from a bunch of different magazine pieces Sullivan wrote over the years Not only interesting and consistently so, but alsolaxing to read, if you know what I mean.Sullivan is looking into the heart of things, surely, and he s definitely bright and thoughtful and all that but his sentences are a wonderful way to sort of immerse yourself in the worlds he s writing about without the overly nervous, super intellectualized analytic brain or the hyper humid,a stiff [...]
My feelings about these essays varied wildly, but the fact I am kinda sad that my reading of them is over must mean something Like Sullivan, I heed the Celtic hillbilly tilt towards the irrational passions and find in music an irrevocable connection to whatever spirit resides in this seemingly uncaring universe Upon This Rock, which begins the collection, is probably the greatest apologia on young American evangelism in print, and the interlude in this essay where Sullivan breaks down and lament [...]
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 til a few months ago My apologies for that, John Jeremiah It took a score of praising reviews for Pulphead I spotted here thank you, Kinga and there thank you, Guardian and Independent to make me aware of Mr S [...]
And so, armed with a head full of both pulp and nutrients, Sullivan encounters a world of Tea Partiers, infatuated naturalists, Christian rock fans, Katrina survivors, and the wife of the guy who does pyro for Bon Jovi The deep background here is that he has in common with these people than you d think In his Axl Rose profile he describes Indiana as the most nowhere part of America, and before you start calling Sullivan a snob, know that Axl Rose isn t the only one from Indiana despite his fami [...]