John Jeremiah Sullivan

About

John Jeremiah Sullivan was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a Contributing Writer to the New York Times Magazine and the author of Pulphead and Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter’s Son. He last wrote for the magazine about the percussion instrument la quijada, the jawbone.

Articles

Issue 45, April 2003

That Don’t Get Him Back Again

Suffice it to say that Big Star invented power pop, loosely defined as unapologetically pretty and sophisticated melodies, with prominent harmony, played loudly and at times with an edge that...

By John Jeremiah Sullivan

Three Encounters

By John Jeremiah Sullivan

That Chop on the Upbeat

By John Jeremiah Sullivan

Issue 95, Winter 2016

Baby Boy Born Birthplace Blues

On that hillside, up which I walked most days to get home from school, had been this unnamed cave—still was a cave, I suppose, way down, but you couldn’t see or access it—and slaves went there to...

By John Jeremiah Sullivan

Issue 99, Winter 2017

Death Rattle

By John Jeremiah Sullivan

Issue 107, Winter 2019

Talking Drums

By John Jeremiah Sullivan

Memphis x Magic

John Jeremiah Sullivan

About

Articles

That Don’t Get Him Back Again

Three Encounters

That Chop on the Upbeat

Baby Boy Born Birthplace Blues

Death Rattle

Talking Drums