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 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