Scary Monsters and Super Freaks
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Scary Monsters and Super Freaks by Mike Sager
Mike Sager is to drugs, porn, and crimes of desperate delusion what Dominic Dunne is to the society murder. In addition to his long-classic Rolling Stone story The Devil and John Holmes (which helped inspire the upcoming Val Kilmer film, Wonderland) and his groundbreaking GQ piece about murdered Irish investigative reporter Veronica Guerin (also the subject of a major film starring Cate Blanchett), Scary Monsters and Super Freaks is a wonderful rogue's gallery of up-close pieces about the most public failures of the American dream. From Rick James and his drug-fueled detour into white slavery to the life and suicide of porn starlet Savannah, from deep inside the beating of Rodney King and the Heaven's Gate cult suicides to Chuck Berry's sexual predilections, this book brings to high-profile true crime a highly identifiable voice and style. Currently Esquire's Writer-at-Large, Sager takes us along for the ride with a raft of other figures including the late NWA Rapper Easy E. Winner, the FBI agent who fell in love with his informant, and the highest ranking DEA agent to be busted for drug trafficking. This is a brilliant debut collection by one of America's most respected and stylish crime writers.Mike Sager is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He's been dubbed the American journalism's Beat poet. He has been a Writer-at-Large for Esquire magazine for almost nineteen years. He earned the National Magazine Award for profile writing from the American Society of Magazine Editors in 2010. Eight of his articles, including Boogie Nights, have been optioned for or inspired Hollywood feature pictures.
He is the editor and publisher of The Sager Group LLC, a group of multi-media artists and authors, as well as the author of more than a dozen books and eBooks. Visit www.TheSagerGroup.net or www.MikeSager.com for additional information.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781560255635 |
| ISBN 10 | 1560255633 |
| Title | Scary Monsters and Super Freaks |
| Author | Mike Sager |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Thunder's Mouth Press |
| Year published | 2003-12-24 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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