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“mike sager”

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  • 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

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  • 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

  • Temple of Doom: And Other Stories of Kids and Crime

    by Mike Sager ...
    Temple of Doom: And Other Stories of Kids and Crime, by the award-winning journalist Mike Sager, is a pocket collection of five true stories—first published in Rolling Stone, GQ, and Esquire—that illuminate the tragic intersection between underage kids and adult crimes and punishments.In the title story, police are baffled when eight Thai Buddhist monks and one nun are killed execution-style in a ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • 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

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  • A Boy and His Dog in Hell: And Other True Stories

    by Mike Sager ...
    Mike Sager has made a career "finding the quotidian within the extreme, the tender amid the grotesque," according to award-winning author and popular Columbia Journalism School professor Sam Freedman.A Boy and His Dog in Hell collects 19 stories that Sager—a best-selling author and veteran of the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and Esquire—calls "my milestones, pieces that have defined and ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Deviant Behavior

    A Novel of Sex, Drugs, Fatherhood, and Crystal Skulls

    by Mike Sager ...
    "[A] dark D.C. tale with . . . an addictive neo-noir sensibility" by the award-winning journalist and New York Times–bestselling author of Tattoos & Tequila ( Publishers Weekly).With a pretty wife, a new baby, and a job reporting for the Washington Herald, Jonathan Seede is the picture of urban respectability. But a secret freelance project is drawing him into places most people never dare to go. ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Hunting Marlon Brando: A True Story

    by Mike Sager ...
    From the start it sounds ridiculous: Go to Tahiti and find Marlon Brando.But the worldwide search for the legendary Method actor, the star of such classic movies as The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, On the Waterfront, and Mutiny on the Bounty, soon becomes an obsession. The story of one man's coming of age.When we first meet him, Sager is 30 years old, divorce pending, no longer the youngest in the ... Read more

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