James Sullivan, Author . Picador $15 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-42237-0
In 1992, fresh out of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Sullivan and a classmate are hired by Bicycling
magazine to report on their trek from Saigon to Hanoi. The plan mutates into a book-length memoir– cum–love story when 27-year-old...
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James Sullivan, Author . Gotham $26 (303p) ISBN 978-1-59240-214-4
According to Sullivan, Brigham Young was on the right track in 1830 when he called a pair of trousers with buttons on the front "fornication pants." The denim blue jean studied here is the perfect mix of form and function (five pockets,...
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James Sullivan, Author . Da Capo $26 (261p) ISBN 978-0-306-81829-5
A recipient of the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, stand-up comedian Carlin (1937–2008) wrote three bestselling humor books and looked back over his five-decade career in his recent memoir, Last Words
. Now music journalist
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James Sullivan. Bloomsbury, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-1-60819-527-5
College is the province of football rivalries, but two small high schools in Massachusetts have established a rivalry that challenges the phenomena of “Army-Navy, Ohio State-Michigan, Georgia-Florida.” The high schools on Martha’s Vineyard and...
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James Sullivan, Author, Chuck D, Foreword by . Gotham $25 (244p) ISBN 978-1-592-40390-5
As Boston Globe
columnist Sullivan points out in this book, Brown's personal life (sexual exploits, spousal abuse, jail time) obscured a public persona that encouraged African-American children not to drop out of school and demanded that his...
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James Sullivan. Scribner, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-1-982147-63-1
Journalist Sullivan (Over the Moat) delivers an expansive, character-driven history of the USS Plunkett, a U.S. Navy destroyer that was “in on every invasion in Europe” during WWII and withstood a “savage” attack by German bombers at the Battle of...
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