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Mike Sacks
Mike Sacks was born in Virginia and raised in Maryland. He attended Tulane University in New Orleans.He has written for Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, The New Yorker, Time, McSweeney's, Radar, MAD, New York Observer, Premiere, Believer, Vice, Maxim, Women's Health, and Salon. He has worked at The... show more
Mike Sacks was born in Virginia and raised in Maryland. He attended Tulane University in New Orleans.He has written for Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, The New Yorker, Time, McSweeney's, Radar, MAD, New York Observer, Premiere, Believer, Vice, Maxim, Women's Health, and Salon. He has worked at The Washington Post, and is currently on the editorial staff of Vanity Fair.His first book, And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Humor Writers About Their Craft, was released in Summer 2009. Some of those interviewed include: George Meyer, Harold Ramis, Al Jaffee, Buck Henry, Bob Odenkirk, Stephen Merchant, David Sedaris, Jack Handey, Robert Smigel, and Daniel Clowes.Sacks co-wrote Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk, with the Pleasure Syndicate, a comedy-writing group consisting of Scott Jacobson (Daily Show), Todd Levin (Tonight Show), Jason Roeder (Onion), and Ted Travelstead (Esquire). The book is scheduled for release August 28, 2010.In addition, Sacks has sold a collection of his published humor pieces to Tin House Books, to be released in February 2011. The book, Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason, will contain pieces from The New Yorker, Esquire, Time, Vanity Fair, McSweeney's, and other publications.
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Tiana Smith
Tiana Smith rated it 12 years ago
Couldn't really get into this one. I think I was expecting it to be a humorous read, but the interview style sort of prevented that and had me flipping pages to try and find something more interesting.
Dilettante
Dilettante rated it 14 years ago
Instead of reviewing Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason (by Mike Sacks) I would like to review one of the blurbs praising the book. David Miner says: "Why surf the web for hours trying (unsucesfully) to find something funny, when you can just pick up this book and surf Mike Sacks' brilliant brain? ...
Another fine mess
Another fine mess rated it 15 years ago
Between the ages of 10 and 14, I had two aspirations, motivated by two different sets of obsessions. One was to be a parapsychologist -- I was a sort-of credulous, sort-of just-excited-by-monsters-and-mysteries fan of In Search Of, of everything from von Daniken's Chariots to Bigfoot to the now-abs...
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