Pulphead: Dispatches from the Other Side of America by John Jeremiah Sullivan – review

John Jeremiah Sullivan's essays on US culture have amazing scope and substanceI began this book reluctantly – I was deep into Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies, which is pretty much the exact opposite – but by the end I wanted to hand out copies to all those poor folks I see squirming their way through the squalid prose-dungeons of Fifty Shades. I wanted to launch a new British magazine especially for long-form journalism. I wanted to go out and round up a good few of the nation's so-calle...

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