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Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South.
As he grew up in Forest, Mississippi, befriended by the family maid, Mattie May, he became a young man who turned the word "sissy" on its head, just as his mother taught him. In Jackson, he is befriended by Eudora Welty and journalist
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"Under This Beautiful Dome tells the true story of journalist Terry Mutchler's secret five-year relationship with Penny Severns, an Illinois State senator who mentored Barack Obama. Forced to engage in an elaborate ruse to keep their relationship a secret, the two women constantly fear discovery in their conservative town. Denied legal access to the altar, they face even greater hardships when Penny is diagnosed with cancer and begins undergoing treatment"--...
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The provocative social and political commentator Andrew Sullivan--the youngest ever editor of The New Republic, founding editor of The Daily Dish, hailed as one of the most influential journalists of the last three decades by The New York Times--presents a collection of his most iconic and powerful essays of social and political commentary from The New Republic, The Atlantic, The NYT Magazine, New York magazine, and more.