Disgraced Congressman Gary Condit… Jailed rock star Rick James… Fallen porn starlet Savannah… Washington Post Pulitzer fabulist Janet Cooke… From the beating by police of black motorist Rodney King to the Heaven’s Gate cult suicides, this collection, by award-winning Esquire Writer-at-Large Mike Sager, chronicles the dark underbelly of the American scene and psyche.
Following in the footsteps of Gay Talese and Tom Wolfe, Sager carries on the tradition of the New Journalism with such articles as his classic Rolling Stone story “The Devil and John Holmes” (which helped inspire the films Boogie Nights and Wonderland), and his groundbreaking GQ piece about murdered Irish investigative reporter Veronica Guerin (also the subject of a film, starring Cate Blanchett).
Scary Monsters and Super Freaks collects these and other stories for the first time in a single volume– a bestselling debut collection from one of America’s most respected and stylish journalists.
Mike 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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