Mike Sager
Revenge Of The Donut Boys: True Stories of Lust, Fame, Survival and Multiple Personality
$16.95

Domestic Goddess Roseanne Barr battles Multiple Personality Disorder... Swingers attend a "fantasy weekend" in Pensacola... Twelve year olds joyride in stolen cars through the ruins of the Newark ghetto... Desmond the butler services the hoi polloi on Park Avenue... Football Hall-of-Famer Mike Ditka enjoys his summer vacation of golf, cigars, and private jets... Newly minted dot.com billionaire Mark Cuban buys himself an NBA basketball team...

From ground zero of the deadliest wildfire in California history to the cozy living room of super-spokesmodel Brooke Burke; from the recording studio with gangsta-rap pioneer Ice Cube to the tour bus with the Satanic metal band Slayer; this tough but lyrical collection of seventeen stories, by award-winning Esquire writer-at-large Mike Sager, brings into sharp focus the rich but confusing state of post-twenty-first century American life -- its values, virtues, obsessions and hypocricies.

A stellar second collection from a writer who has been called "the beat poet of American journalism-- that rare reporter who can make literature out of shabby reality."

“Nobody alive today is writing better long magazine pieces than Mike Sager.”--Kurt Andersen, author, Turn of the Century, host of Studio 360, columnist, New York.

“Sager plays Virgil in the Modern American Inferno...Compelling and stylish magazine journalism, rich in novelistic detail.” --Kirkus Reviews

“Revenge of the Donut Boys is weird and wonderful. Don’t miss it.”
--William Greider, author, columnist, national affairs correspondent, The Nation.

“With Mike Sager, the ordinary becomes extraordinary.”
--Barry Siegel, Director of Literary Journalism, University of California, Irvine.

“Like his journalistic precursors Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson, Sager writes frenetic, off-kilter pop-sociological profiles of Americans in all their vulgarity and vitality. He writes with flair, but only in the service of an omnivorous curiosity. He defies expectations in pieces that lesser writers would play for satire or sensationalism… a Whitmanesque ode to teeming humanity’s mystical unity.”
--The New York Times Book Review