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FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children.

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My mother had attempted, after my father’s sudden death, to go back to school to get her teaching degree in English he rest of her days as a secreta.

My mother had attempted, after my father’s sudden death, to go back to school to get her teaching degree in English he rest of her days as a secretary who, as a beautiful widow, would be fair game for the wanton advances of a seersucker-wearing cracker boss in some Mississippi backwater, made her eyes brim with even more tears. Just between us, Kevin, ‘shorthand’ sounds to me more like a deformity from which some poor soul might suffer, a physical affliction rather than a secretarial skill,.

Writer for Vanity Fair, etc. Wrote NY Times bestsellers Mississippi Sissy and I Left It on the Mountain

Mississippi Sissy by Kevin Sessums-Audiobook Excerpt

Mississippi Sissy by Kevin Sessums-Audiobook Excerpt. Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Mississippi Sissy, 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. Kevin Sessums seamlessly weaves his heart-breaking, funny, outrageous, can't-put-it-down story. Mississippi Sissy is a book I've been waiting for most of my life, though I didn't fully understand that fact until I read. Kevin Sessums is some sort of cockeyed national treasure.

In Mississippi Sissy, Kevin Sessums, one of our best-known celebrity journalists, creates a great panorama . I was so moved by Kevin Sessums's funny, sad evocation of his childhood and teenage years in Mississippi Sissy.

I was so moved by Kevin Sessums's funny, sad evocation of his childhood and teenage years in Mississippi Sissy.

Most of Mississippi Sissy has the feel of someone reaching for material

In the realm of worst-childhood one-upmanship, Sessums, a magazine writer, can surely compete. Most of Mississippi Sissy has the feel of someone reaching for material. Reading it, one can’t help thinking of Sessums as some kind of amateur magician onstage at last in the bright lights, fishing desperately through the grab bag of his experiences for something - anything - of sufficient pathos, gravitas or name-dropping enviability to justify the price of admission. In the last category, for example, via Frank Hains, Sessums makes the acquaintance of Eudora Welty.

Kevin Sessums was born in 1956 in Forest, Mississippi. His brother is artist Dr. J. Kim Sessums of Brookhaven, Mississippi. Sessums attended, but dropped out of, the Juilliard School in New York City. His work has also appeared in Travel+Leisure, Elle, Out, Marie Claire, Playboy, Thedailybeast.