Posts Tagged ‘GQ’
If you read only one Michael Jackson tribute…
…let it be this one by John Jeremiah Sullivan. Because it was hatched at Sewanee, somewhere between Sterling’s and Gailor. My nonfiction classmates will recognize the intro from our brainstorming session. Sullivan makes the case for MJ as a writer above all– which made me relate to the King of Pop in weird new way. What artist has “never known a reality that wasn’t susceptible on some level to his creative powers”?
Sullivan on Levi Johnston
John Grammer just sent a link to (nonfiction professor) John Jeremiah Sullivan’s latest piece in GQ…
which achieves what I’d have thought impossible: a thoughtful, funny, sympathetic, even poignant profile of Levi Johnston, the rejected unwed hockey-playing bear-hunting father of Sarah Palin’s grandchild.
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