Mike Sager

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Mike Sager is currently a writer-at-large for Esquire magazine and has had a rich and varied career covering drug raids, fallen pornstars, Palestinian lifestyle, an old man, and a beautiful girl. A collection of his stories was published 2003 under the title"Scary Monsters and Super Freaks: Stories of Sex, Drugs, Rock 'N' Roll and Murder" He has won national magazine awards such as the the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Distinguished Music Writing and has been nominated 19 times for the American Society of Magazine Editors award. His stories has also been featured in various collections, such as Esquire's Big Book of Great Writings and Intimate Journalism. ^[1] Eight of his stories have been optioned for movies, including his GQ story about his ex-girlfriend and fallen journalist Janet Cooke, where it was optioned by Columbia Tri-Star Pictures. ^[2]

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He abruptly quit law school after 3 weeks and joined the Washington Post as a copy boy, working the graveyard shift. He eventually moved to doing small stories on the legal system and eleven months later was promoted to staff writer by Metro editor Bob Woodward. ^[3] Six years later he left the Post and became the new drug correspondent for Rolling Stone, after Hunter S. Thompson became unreliable. "I spent two weeks as his indentured servant, living in his hyperreality. He didn’t live in the real world,” Sager said. “It’s almost like there was this fish bowl around his head and it was full of clouds. Nothing really penetrated and there was all this [stuff] bouncing around inside of there.” ^[4] From there he wrote several notable pieces, including a piece on Vietnam veterans living in Thailand. After working at Rolling Stone for several years, he moved onto GQ, where he wrote an article about his ex-girlfriend Janet Cooke, the fallen journalist. After, he soon became a writer-at-large for Esquire, where he currently is today. He lives in La Jolla with his wife and son. His next collection will be out in spring of 2007 and his debut novel inspired by the Pope of Pot will be coming out in winter of 2007.