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Mike Sager

The Someone You’re Not

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Bestselling author Mike Sager’s fourth collection, The Someone You’re Not, showcases his deftly-written journalism at its best and most mature, a riveting marriage of crime reportage and you-are-there literary anthropology.The Someone You're Not

The book’s centerpiece examines the rise and fall of football RoboQuarterback Todd Marinovich—a previously unpublished, thirty-plus thousand-word “nonvella” version of his ASME-award winning Esquire story, the inspiration for ESPN’s acclaimed documentary. Other true stories include up-close and personal visits with super-celebrity Paris Hilton, former Louisiana governor and South Asian Republican hopeful Gov. Piyush “Bobby” Jindal, Ultimate Fighting Championship impresario Dana White, and coaching phenom Pete Carroll.

Plus: A man who spent twenty-nine years in prison for a crime he did not commit. A Muslim immigrant who worked to save the life of the white supremacist who tried to kill him. The best-dressed man in America. An ugly guy in a town that worships beauty.  And “The Porn Identity,” where a divorced dad takes to the road to find former porn starlets and to rediscover his mojo.

 

 

 

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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