Podcast Corner: Sullivan's writings are the toast of New York 

Pulphead author John Jeremiah Sullivan is the final guest on the Longform podcast 

John Jeremiah Sullivan's Pulphead made the New York Times’ list of the 100 best books of the 21st century so far. (Photo by Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)

How interesting to see John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead make the New York Times’ list of the 100 best books of the 21st century so far. As the accompanying blurb notes, “When this book of essays came out, it bookended a fading genre: collected pieces written on deadline by 'pulpheads', or magazine writers”.

 It was released in 2011 and Sullivan has largely gone to ground since then, a couple of pieces for GQ here, a story for UnHerd there. How interesting that Sullivan is the final guest on the Longform podcast, which began in August 2012 and has racked up nearly 600 episodes in the intervening dozen years. It’s a simple concept - interviews with writers, journalists, filmmakers, and podcasters about how they do their work. We covered it previously (https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40792080.html) when the New Yorker writer Michael Schulman talked about the reaction to his viral feature on Succession actor Jeremy Strong.