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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print Paperback

ISBN
  
978-0-374-53290-1

Originally published
  
2011

Publisher
  
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Country
  
United States of America

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Publication date
  
2011

Pages
  
369 pp

Dewey Decimal
  
080—dc23

Author
  
John Jeremiah Sullivan

Genre
  
Essay

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Essays
  
A Supposedly Fun Thin, Consider the Lobster, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Farther Away

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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.

Contents

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.

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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

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