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Next Wave: America’s New Generation of Great Literary Journalists

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Next Wave collects the work of today’s finest young writers—nineteen creative reporters whose work builds upon foundations laid by previous generations, dating back more than fifty years to John Hersey, Lillian Ross, Gay Talese, and Tom Wolfe. Although naysayers predicted the decline of quality long-form journalism with the rise of the Internet, Next Wave is evidence that the genre is thriving—aided by the very medium that was initially portrayed as the executioner.Edited By Walt Harrington and Mike Sager

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A “Hot New Release” on Amazon–#3.

Available in October as an eBook. Print on demand editions will be ready for Christmas. 

Stories include: A poor man who discovers a $1 million bill. The tragedy of a beloved pet chimp run amok. The sad yet hopeful tale of a first-year teacher in an impoverished school. The Florida woman who died in her house—and nobody noticed. The confusing genetics of one of the world’s greatest athletes. Inside the Washington, DC, subway crash that took nine lives. The prosecutor, caught in a sting by Dateline’s “To Catch a Predator,” who takes his own life. A father and his autistic son, out for a swim, are swept out to sea. The son who secretly tried to destroy his father’s venerable worldwide reputation. A woman who legally abandons her child. An unthinkable crime in the vineyard that produces burgundy’s finest wine. The last days of a former star basketball player, chasing his demons through the jungles of Brazil. The horse-track veterinarian who ends the lives of beautiful creatures. The fortitude of a shrimp boat captain trying to maintain his family’s long tradition in a changing world. A reluctant high-school football player who died on the practice field; and the coach who may have driven him to it. A good woman who was quite possibly wrongly convicted of killing her adopted, troubled child. A wounded soldier who is given a new skull. And profiles of movie critic Roger Ebert and pop diva Britney Spears that offer rare and substantial glimpses behind the curtain of celebrity.

Next Wave is fascinating and beautiful reading for enthusiasts and students of vibrant, you-are-there, literary non-fiction. Each chapter includes a photo, a bio, a personal essay, and an outstanding magazine or newspaper story from a different up-and-coming writer. Compiled by two award-winning literary journalists/educators from the last generation, Next Wave is a celebration of today’s greatest writing and a roadmap for aspiring practitioners of tomorrow, a joyful reminder that literary journalism alive and well, and that artful craftsmanship will never go out of fashion.

Mike SagerMike Sager is a bestselling author and award-winning reporter. He’s been called “the Beat poet of American journalism.” For more than forty years he has worked as a writer for the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, GQ and Esquire.

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  • NOW AVAILABLE: Vetville: True Stories of the US Marines
    2019-09-19
  • Hear Mike Sager interviewed about the death of the Godfather of The New Journalism, Tom Wolfe.
    2018-05-28
  • NOW AVAILABLE: The Second Edition of the LA Times Bestselling REVENGE OF THE DONUT BOYS, by MIKE SAGER.
    2018-04-24
  • Mike Sager talks Creation, Suspending Disbelief, and Preaching Beyond the Choir on the CREATIVE NONFICTION PODCAST with Brendan O'Meara.
    2018-04-24
  • Now Available: The Lonely Hedonist: True Stories of Sex, Drugs, Dinosaurs and Peter Dinklage.
    2017-08-29
  • Now Available from Byliner/Vook: STONED AGAIN: THE HIGH TIMES AND STRANGE LIFE OF A DRUGS CORRESPONDENT
    2015-05-04
  • Now available on Amazon in paper and eBook: 25th Anniversary Author’s cut of “THE DEVIL AND JOHN HOLMES”
    2014-12-15
  • HIGH TOLERANCE now available in paperback on Amazon and in eBook wherever they are sold.
    2013-05-16
  • Paperback Editions of NEXT WAVE and THE SOMEONE YOU'RE NOT now available
    2012-12-18
  • Now Available: First Fall List from The Sager Group
    2012-10-16
  • Coming Soon from The Sager Group
    2012-08-01

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  • Tattoos & Tequila: The Vince Neil Story
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  • Deviant Behavior, A Novel
  • Revenge of the Donut Boys
  • Scary Monsters and Super Freaks
  • Next Wave: America’s New Generation Great Literary Journalists
  • The Someone You’re Not
  • High Tolerance, A Novel
  • The Devil and John Holmes
  • Stoned Again
  • The Lonely Hedonist

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