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A New York Times Well known Book for 2011 Among Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Nonfiction Literature of the entire year 2011 A Time Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2011 A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Among Library Journal's Best Literature of 2011 A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane head to of America's cultural scenery - from high to low to lessen than low - by the award-winning young legend of the literary nonfiction world. In Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan needs us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten culture. Together channeling the gonzo energy of Hunter S. Thompson and the wit and insight of Joan Didion, Sullivan shows us - with a laidback, erudite Southern allure that's all his own - how we really (no, really) live now. In his native Kentucky, Sullivan introduces us to Constantine Rafinesque, a nineteenth-century polymath genius who concocted a thick, fantastical prehistory of the New World. Back modern times, Sullivan needs us to the Ozarks for a Religious rock celebration; to Florida to meet the alumni and straggling refugees of MTV's Real World, who've produced their own self-perpetuating overall economy of minor superstar; and all over the South on the path of the blues. He needs us to Indiana to research the formative years of Michael Jackson and Axl Rose, and then to the Gulf Seacoast in the wake of Katrina and back again, as its residents confront the BP essential oil spill. Eventually, a unifying narrative emerges, a tale concerning this country that we've never read informed this way. It's just like a fun-house hall-of-mirrors head to: Sullivan shows us who we could in ways we've never thought to be true. Naturally we have no idea whether to laugh or cry when faced with this reflection - it's our inescapable sob-guffaws that verify the power of Sullivan's work.
