Ferrymen: An Image of Passage that’s Stayed with Me.
John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine and southern editor of The Paris Review. Sullivan was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter’s Son (Picador, 2004) and Pulphead: Essays (FSG, 2011). Sullivan is the.John Jeremiah Sullivan is a dynamic and gutsy writer, a cross between Flannery O'Connor and a decaffeinated Tom Wolfe, with just the right dash of Hunter S. Thompson. In fourteen essays ranging from an Axl Rose profile to an RV trek to a Christian rock festival to the touching story of his brother's near-death electrocution, Sullivan writes funny, beautiful, and very real sentences.The roots musician is inspired by the evolving legacy of the black string band. John Jeremiah Sullivan New Yorker May 2019 35min Permalink.
John Jeremiah Sullivan (born 1974) is an American writer, musician, teacher, and editor. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine, and the southern editor of The Paris Review.In 2014, he edited The Best American Essays, a collection in which his work has been featured in previous years. He has also served on the faculty of Columbia.John Jeremiah Sullivan Issue 194, Fall 2010 When I was twenty years old, I became a kind of apprentice to a man named Andrew Lytle, whom pretty much no one apart from his negligibly less ancient sister, Polly, had addressed except as Mister Lytle in at least a decade.
John Jeremiah Sullivan’s essays. By James Woo d. December 12, 2011. Save this story for later. Save this story for later. The contemporary essay has been gaining energy as an escape from, or.
