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Scary Monsters and Super Freaks

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Scary Monsters and Super Freaks

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 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: Shaman: The Mysterious Life and Impeccable Death of Carlos Castaneda
    2020-09-11
  • 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
  • Deviant Behavior, A Novel
  • Scary Monsters and Super Freaks
  • Revenge of the Donut Boys
  • Wounded Warriors
  • 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
  • Vetville
  • Shaman

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