Peopled with the famous like Daniel Radcliffe and Diane Sawyer as well as anonymous companions corporeal and otherwise whom he met while mountain climbing and hiking, I Left It on the Mountain is the story of one man’s fall and rebirth, the next moving chapter in Kevin Sessums’ extraordinary life that takes him from the high to the low and back again. Kilimanjaro, walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostelo and trudging across the cold, lonely winter beaches of Provincetown. It’s also the chronicle of one man’s spiritual redemption found while climbing to the top of Mt. In I Left It on the Mountain, Sessums chronicles his early days in NY as an actor, his years working for Andy Warhol at Interview and Tina Brown at Vanity Fair, countless nights of anonymous sex, his HIV Positive diagnosis and his descent into addiction. For years he had interviewed the bright lights: Madonna, Courtney Love, Jessica Lange, and all the other usual suspects but, Kevin knew that his rapidly unraveling life was as shallow as the hotel’s hip furniture and he was hanging on by his fingertips. hotel room wondering how he would get through his scheduled interview with Hugh Jackman. On his 53rd birthday, Kevin Sessums woke up in his L.A. Martin’s Press), writer Kevin Sessums details his debilitating descent into drug addiction and his hard fought road to redemption: In his new memoir I Left It on the Mountain (St.

New month, new books! A new month is upon us, and so are a slew of new and noteworthy LGBT books. New in February: Kevin Sessums, Lashonda Katrice Barnett, Kenny Porpora, and Carter Sickels

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