![]() ![]() But what I did have, even then, was my writer’s ear. ![]() I was not carrying around a recording device when growing up in Mississippi. In an author’s note, Sessums writes of the rich, novelistic conversations he recreates: “The dialogue-as true to these people and events and what was said around me as my memory can possibly make it-is my own invention. Mississippi Sissy won praise as an assured, richly detailed narrative of a gay youth’s encounters with love and death.īut it’s a work that hints at the narrator’s unreliability. In the company of Hains, whose literary circle included Eudora Welty, Sessums remembers enjoying a rare respite from loneliness. You seem to be spying right there out in the open all the time, right there in our midst…. You are remarkably free of judgment and yet you are preternaturally wary. ![]() “Don’t ask me why,” Frank Hains, a newspaper editor, theater columnist, and stage director, tells the teenage Sessums, “but I trust you completely. In Kevin Sessums’ 2007 coming-of-age memoir, Mississippi Sissy, an early mentor describes the demeanor that would contribute to Sessums’ success as a celebrity interviewer for Vanity Fair, Parade, and other publications: ![]()
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