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Bestselling author Mike Sager's fourth collection showcases his deftly-written journalism at its best and most mature, a riveting marriage of crime reportage and you-are-there literary anthropology. The book's centerpiece examines the rise and fall of football RoboQuarterback Todd Marinovich-a previously unpublished, thirty-plus thousand-word "nonvella" version of his ASME-award-winning Esquire story, the inspiration for ESPN's acclaimed doc...

The Pope of Pot: And Other True Stories of Marijuana and Related High Jinks is a pocket collection, by the award-winning journalist (and former Rolling Stone drugs correspondent) Mike Sager, highlighting his dispatches from the cannabis underground. In "When Should a Man Stop Smoking Weed?" Sager looks back on a half-century of pot smoking, starting on a humid night in summer at age 12. "Marijuana has served as a great equalizer, a frequent ...

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Mike Sager has made a career "finding the quotidian within the extreme, the tender amid the grotesque, " according to author and popular Columbia Journalism School professor Sam Freedman.A Boy and His Dog in Hell collects 19 stories that Sager-a best-selling author and veteran of the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and Esquire-calls "my milestones, the pieces that have defined and distinguished my work over forty-some years of journalism-adven...

From the start, it sounds ridiculous: Go to Tahiti and find Marlon Brando.But the worldwide search for the legendary Method actor, the star of such classic movies as The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, On the Waterfront, and Mutiny on the Bounty, soon becomes an obsession. The story of one man's coming of age.When we first meet him, Sager is 30 years old, divorce pending, no longer the youngest in the room. Winter is coming. His prospects are dim. ...

Some say he was a breakthrough academic and visionary shaman. Others say he was a sham. Either way, Carlos Castaneda shaped a generation of mystical thinkers and magic mushroom eaters.In 1968, at the height of the psychedelic age, Castaneda published The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, the first of twelve books describing his apprenticeship to an Indian shaman, and his journeys to the "separate reality" of the sorcerers' world...

John Holmes was every man's gigolo, a polyester smoothie with a sparse mustache, a flying collar and lots of buttons undone. He wasn't threatening. He chewed gum and overacted. He took a lounge singer's approach to sex, deliberately gentle, ostentatiously artful, a homely guy with a pinkie ring and a big dick who was convinced he was every woman's dream."--excerpt from "The Devil and John Holmes"John Curtis Holmes had the longest, most prolifi...

Janet Cooke was a warning shot, a harbinger of all kinds of journalistic scandals to come." -Howard Kurtz, author and media critic Janet Cooke caused one of the biggest scandals in the history of journalism when her Pulitzer Prize-winning article, about an eight-year-old heroin addict, turned out to be a fabrication. Cooke, a reporter for the Washington Post, worked under the legendary editors Ben Bradlee and Bob Woodward. Her disgrace was a...

Mike Sager has been called "the Beat poet of American Journalism." Vetville collects the best his stories about the Marine Corps. Together this tetralogy of long form pieces charts a life story arc of the modern Devil Dog. It begins at Camp Pendleton, CA, on field exercises with Lieutenant Colonel Bob Sinclair and his BN One-Four-the 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment-as they prepare to invade Afghanistan, the first wave of American combatants...

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This is the story, not simply of one woman's brave struggle in the wilderness, but of the pioneer spirit that opened up that wilderness for future generations. Edith Julia Bronson married an outlaw at the beginning of this century. This courageous pioneer woman bore her lawless husband, Fred Frye, nine children, drove a freight wagon 2, 000 miles from North Dakota to BC on a six-year odyssey, endured loneliness, her husband's bootlegging, braw...

From ground zero of the deadliest wildfire in California history to the cozy living room of super-spokesmodel Brooke Burke, from the recording studio with gangsta-rap pioneer Ice Cube to the tour bus with the Satanic metal band Slayer, this tough but lyrical collection of seventeen stories, by award-winning Esquire and Rolling Stone writer Mike Sager, brings into sharp focus the rich but confusing state of modern American life- its values, vir...

Best-selling author Mike Sager has been called "the Beat poet of American journalism, that rare reporter who can make literature out of shabby reality." The Lonely Hedonist: True Stories of Sex, Drugs, Dinosaurs and Peter Dinklage is Sager's sixth collection of true stories-sixteen intimate profiles of larger-than-life Americans, both famous and obscure: The founder of a Beverly Hills sex club who has everything he ever wanted but misses his ...

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The first novel from bestselling journalist Sager offers a mad, vivid, and daring romp through a society in crisis, telling the story of what happens when one frustrated father decides to Just Say Yes.

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