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“mike sager”

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  • The Someone You're Not

    True Stories of Sports, Celebrity, Politics & Pornography

    by Mike Sager ...
    Bestselling author Mike Sager’s fourth collection, The Someone You’re Not, showcases Sager’s 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anthropology.The book’s centerpiece examines the rise and fall of football RoboQuarterback Todd Marinovich—a previously unpublished, thirty-plus thousand word “nonvella” version of his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of a Super Freak: And Other True Stories of Black Men Who Made History

    by Mike Sager ...
    The Rise and Fall of a Super Freak: And Other True Stories of Black Men Who Made History, is a pocket collection of stories, by award-winning journalist Mike Sager, about American Black men whose lives significantly affected the direction and zeitgeist of American culture.Rick James, known to all as Super Freak, was the first to wear African-inspired braids; his powerful funk beats powered the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Devil and John Holmes - 25th Anniversary Author's Edition: And Other True Stories of Drugs, Porn and Murder

    by Mike Sager ...
    *Now updated with new cover, new interior art, and vintage movie posters."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 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shaman: The Mysterious Life and Impeccable Death of Carlos Castaneda

    by Mike Sager ...
    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 ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Janet’s World: The Inside Story of Washington Post Pulitzer Fabulist Janet Cooke

    by Mike Sager ...
    "Janet Cooke was a warning shot, a harbinger of all kinds of journalistic scandals to come." —Howard Kurtz, author and media criticJanet 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 ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scary Monsters and Super Freaks: Stories of Sex, Drugs, Rock ‘N’ Roll and Murder

    by Mike Sager ...
    Mike Sager's bestselling debut collection brings pop culture's seamy underbelly into sharp focus. It brings together nineteen of Sager's greatest true crime stories, including "The Devil and John Holmes," which inspired the classic movies Boogie Nights, with Mark Wahlberg and Wonderland with Val Kilmer. "The Martyrdom of Veronica Guerin" became a Disney film starring Cate Blanchett.Says E! Online: ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pope of Pot: And Other True Stories of Marijuana and Related High Jinks

    by Mike Sager ...
    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 ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revenge of the Donut Boys: True Stories of Lust, Fame, Survival and Multiple Personality

    by Mike Sager ...
    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 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Travels with Bassem: A Palestinian and a Jew Find Friendship in a War-Torn Land

    by Mike Sager ...
    In the summer of 1988, about six months into the First Palestinian Intifada—an uprising by Palestinians against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip—journalist Mike Sager, a Jew, was sent by the Washington Post Sunday Magazine to investigate the human toll of the uprising. While much was known about the political situation at the time, little had been reported about the ... Read more

    $10.01 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vetville: True Stories of the U.S. Marines at War and at Home

    by Mike Sager ...
    Mike Sager has been called "the Beat poet of American Journalism." Vetville collects the best of 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 ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lonely Hedonist: True Stories of Sex, Drugs, Dinosaurs and Peter Dinklage

    by Mike Sager ...
    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 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • High Tolerance

    A Novel of Sex, Race, Celebrity, Murder… and Marijuana

    by Mike Sager ...
    “The wry and knowing Mike Sager has written a saucy and kinetic L.A. novel. Celebrity gets fully toasted in this engaging romp about show business and the clash of cultures high and low, where the talk is tough before the shooting starts. The spotlight, it seems, can sometimes be a very dark place.”–Ron Carlson, author, Return to Oakpine, co-director, MFA Program in Fiction Writing, University of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD