I Left It on the Mountain: A Memoir

On his fifty-third birthday, Kevin Sessums woke up in his L.A. hotel room wondering how he would get through his scheduled interview with Hugh Jackman. For years he had interviewed the bright lightsùMadonna, Courtney Love, Jessica Lange, and all the other usual suspectsùbut Kevin knew that his rapidly unraveling life was as shallow as the hotelÆs hip furniture and he was hanging on by his fingertips. In I Left It on the Mountain, Sessums chronicles his early days in New York as an actor; his years working for Andy Warhol at Interview and Tina Brown, then Graydon Carter, at Vanity Fair; countless nights of anonymous sex; his HIV-positive diagnosis; and his descent into addiction. ItÆs also the chronicle of one manÆs spiritual redemption, found while climbing to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostelo, and trudging across the cold, lonely winter beaches of Provincetown. Peopled with the famous, like Daniel Radcliffe and Diane Sawyer, as well as anonymous companionsùcorporeal and otherwiseùwhom he met while mountain climbing and hiking, I Left It on the Mountain is the story of one manÆs fall and rebirth, the next moving chapter in Kevin SessumsÆs extraordinary life that takes him from the high to the low and back again. For readers who loved Mississippi Sissy and want to know what happened to that tenacious little boy with the baseball mitt, I Left It on the Mountain is the sometimes very dark but ultimately hopeful answer.

• | Author: Kevin Sessums
• | Publisher: Picador
• | Publication Date: Feb 09, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 1250078180
• | ISBN-13: 9781250078186