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Mike Sacks | |
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| Born | Virginia, US |
| Alma mater | Tulane University |
| Genre | Humor |
| Notable works | And Here's The Kicker, Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason |
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Mike Sacks is an American author, humor writer and magazine editor based in New York City. Sacks is currently an editor at Vanity Fair and formerly worked for The Washington Post.[1][2] He contributes to the New Yorker, McSweeney's, Esquire, Salon, Vanity Fair, GQ, Believer, Vice, the New York Times and the Washington Post.[3] As of 2022, Sacks has published a total of ten books, six of which have been under his own imprint.[4]
Sacks' collection of humorous photos of television shows has been featured on NPR and Gawker.[5][6] He has also been featured in The New York Post, Vanity Fair and LA Weekly, and has appeared on BBC, CNN and NPR's Weekend Edition.[7][8][9][10][11]
In 2017, Sacks created a vanity press imprint dubbed "Sunshine Beam Publishing" which he created "primarily to publish stuff no one else would publish."[4][12]
Episodes of the podcast, Doin' It with Mike Sacks... and Rob!, have been produced since January 2016.[citation needed]
- ^ "Mike Sacks Archive at Vanity Fair". Vanity Fair.
- ^ Kuntzman, Gersh (7 March 2011). "Checkin' in with… Comedy Writer Mike Sacks". New York Post.
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- Sacks, Mike; Powers, Bob (9 August 2012). "Just A Friendly Robocall". The New Yorker.
- Sacks, Mike; Teddy, Wayne. "Condo President-For-Life". McSweeney's.
- Sacks, Mike. "Ikea Instructions". Esquire.
- Mike Sacks; Scott Rothman (26 February 2011). "Dear Thomas Pynchon, can you blurb my book?". Salon.
- Sacks, Mike (8 February 2013). "The Founding Farter". Vanity Fair.
- Sacks, Mike; Travelstead, Ted (30 January 2014). "Timeline: Justin Bieber's Life for the Next 35 Years". GQ.
- Sacks, Mike. "102 Self-Help Books You Can Do Without". radar.
- Sacks, Mike. "Interview with Tim and Eric". Believer.
- Sacks, Mike (2 December 2008). "Two Stories". Vice.
- ^ a b Dan, Bova (February 14, 2018). "How This Writer Embraced the F--- It Mentality and Turned a Crazy Idea Into a Project Starring Jon Hamm". Entrepreneur.
- ^ Chillag, Ian (4 January 2010). "'Photos of TV':It's Photos of TV". NPR.
- ^ Douglas, Nick. "Photos of TV". Gawker. Archived from the original on 2014-03-22.
- ^ Estes, Lenora Jane (March 1, 2011). "Mike Sack Reads From Your Wildest Dreams, With Reason". Vanity Fair.
- ^ Molyneaux, Libby (April 28, 2011). "Make Us Laugh, Funny Boy:Mike Sacks". LA Weekly.
- ^ "The Comedy Cafe". BBC.
- ^ "Comics Confess Their Nightmares". CNN. October 21, 2009.
- ^ Simon, Scott (August 1, 2009). "Comedy Writing:How To Be Funny". NPR Weekend Edition.
- ^ Alex, Norcia (September 13, 2018). "The Year's Best Memoir Is About a Man Who Shot a Porno in a Baskin-Robbins". Vice.