It's always fun to have a book wildly outpace your expectations. This was one. Pulphead is Sullivan's collection of essays that apparently have appeared elsewhere. They are a widely diverse, many very personal. Sullivan writes about fascinating topics with real interest so things like an obsc...
My father and I would trade off roles: one of us had to lie very still with eyes closed and arms crossed over the chest, and the other had to complain, “I’ve been searching these pyramids for so many years. When will I ever find the tomb of Tutankhamun?” (This was in the late seventies, when Tut ...