![]() ![]() And it comes: Sessums, left penniless and hallucinating, gives up his beloved dogs to try getting sober in Provincetown, Mass. The persistent subtext is that his talent for cover-ups only delays the inevitable rock bottom. After a night of bingeing on meth with a prostitute, he shows up to interview Daniel Radcliffe and asks, “Do you use Keats’s theory of negative capability in your approach to acting, in your approach to life?” Radcliffe answers, “Absolutely! You’ve found me out!” As the cycle of drugs followed by successful interviews continues, it becomes clear that Sessums is treading in dangerous water: the more he is able to function despite his addiction, the worse it becomes. However, his love of other extremes-in sex and drugs-seeps into his sparkling career. Interludes throughout the primary narrative detail Sessums’s love of extreme travel: he’s climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and walked the famed El Camino Santiago across Spain. Sessums chronicles his career as a prominent celebrity writer for Vanity Fair, Interview, and Parade, rubbing elbows with Andy Warhol and interviewing Madonna and Courtney Love before falling into methamphetamine addiction. In the absorbing follow-up to his bestselling memoir Mississippi Sissy, Sessums brings his fascinating voice to this story of ambition, addiction, and recovery. ![]()
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