John Jeremiah Sullivan will read from and answer questions about his work.
Sullivan is one of America’s most influential, and most perennially surprising, literary journalists. He is the author of Pulphead, which The New York Times Book Review called “the best, and most important, collection of magazine writing since David Foster Wallace’s A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again.” His topics have ranged from a Christian rock festival, to the experience of having his house used as a location for a TV show, to his brother’s near-death and recovery. Reviewers have praised Sullivan’s “compulsive honesty and wildly intelligent prose” and called him “as red-hot a writer as they come.”
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. He has won two National Magazine Awards, a Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize, and Yale’s Windham-Campbell Literature Prize.