John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the southern editor of The Paris Review. He writes for GQ, Harper's Magazine, and Oxford American, and is the author of Blood Horses and Pulphead. Sullivan lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.
An interestingly wayward memoir, exploring […] the vibrant mixture of equine beauty and human ugliness to be found on the racetrack -- Jane Shilling * Evening Standard * A great father-son memoir, and a good book about horses, too -- William Leith, 4 stars * Scotsman * You needn’t love horses to find this idiosyncratic memoir a joy -- 4 stars * Lady * This is desperately sad, life-affirming and just about wonderful. It is the book every father would want his son to write about him -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times * As a memoir, an elegy and a piece of investigative journalism, it dazzles * The Economist * Iridescent * Sunday Times * Amply researched and gracefully told * New Yorker * Sullivan has found the transcendent in the house * Sports Illustrated * Bracingly eccentric…Sullivan is a remarkable writer -- Jane Shilling * Sunday Telegraph * It's a good, funny, moving book... [Sullivan] is unfailingly good company, always curious, often very funny -- Theo Tait * Guardian *