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I love America.
I think John Jeremiah Sullivan does
too.
While I, like most people, know very
little about love, I am fairly sure it isn't simple. That it's made
up of thousands of varieties and eccentricities and a load of stuff
that doesn't make a lot of sense.
It is this kind of love that Sullivan
applies to his country in this collection of journalistic essays. He
writes about: reality TV, animal attacks, Michael Jackson, the Tea
Party, Indian cave painting, 19th century naturalists,
Christian rock festivals, Axl Rose, One Tree Hill,
Hurricane Katrina, the Blues, Disney Land, Bunny Wailer (of Bob
Marley & the Wailers fame), comas, cranky old men.
His articles' style varies quite a bit too. At his best, his very very best, as
good as it gets for anyone writing this sort of thing, he functions a
bit like Louis Theroux. Usually he is a little more meditative, a
little more investigative, a little more autobiographical.
