He was in New York City, launching the book, and said it was freezing there. Enter "I Left It on the Mountain: A Memoir" (St. Since finishing "Mississippi Sissy" all those years ago, I have wondered just how that world-weary teenager full of promise became a celebrity journalist. I especially love when he posts photos from after-parties or star-studded openings with memories about whatever A-list celebrities he rubbed shoulders with. I've followed Sessums on social media and read his interviews from Vanity Fair, Parade and Interview Magazine. The book ends with Sessums taking in an afternoon matinee in New York City, searching for solace in the way he always has: being alone. In the end, though, tragedy struck again in the form of a brutal murder. "Although I was only 16 at the time, I had immediately been accepted into their fold," he wrote in the book. Surely with Frank Hains, Eudora Welty and the burgeoning New Stage Theater community, and the Jackson literati of the day, Sessums could blossom. When a teenage Sessums escaped to Jackson, I, like most readers, assumed he had made it to safety. The book opened our eyes to the life of a boy touched by tragedy, feeling like an outsider in an ultra-conservative southern state, and his molestation at the hands of a trusted minister. Martin's Press, $24.95) became a best seller. In 2007, Kevin Sessums' "Mississippi Sissy" (St.
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