title: Pulphead
text: # Pulphead
  
  Pulphead is an essay collection by the American writer and editor John Jeremiah Sullivan. Pulphead has been named a 2011 New York Times Notable Book, a Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2011, and one of Amazon's Best of the Month for November 2011.
  
  Sullivan's essay "Mr. Lytle: An Essay," which recounts his time spent living with a then geriatric Andrew Nelson Lytle, won a 2011 National Magazine Award and a 2011 Pushcart Prize.
  
  ## Original Publishing Home of Pulphead Essays
  
  The Paris Review
  
  * "Mister Lytle", published in Pulphead as "Mr. Lytle: An Essay"
  * "Unnamed Caves", on American cave art
  
  GQ
  
  * "The Last Wailer", on Bunny Wailer
  * "Back in the Day", on Michael Jackson, published in Pulphead as "Michael"
  * "The Final Comeback of Axl Rose", on Axl Rose
  * "Upon This Rock", on a visit to a Christian rock festival
  * "American Grotesque", on the Tea Party movement
  * "Violence of the Lambs", on the coming war between animals and humans
  * "Peyton's Place", on Sullivan's house being used as a filming location for the show One Tree Hill
  
  Harper's Magazine
  
  * "Unknown Bards", on the history of blues music.
  