Product Description: Bestselling author Mike Sager’s fourth collection showcases his deftly-written journalism at its best and most mature, a riveting marriage of crime reportage and you-are-there literary anthropology. The book’s centerpiece examines the rise and fall of football RoboQuarterback Todd Marinovich—a previously unpublished, thirty-plus thousand word “nonvella” version of his ASME-award winning Esquire story, the inspiration for ESPN’s acclaimed documentary, The Marinovich Project...read more

Product Description: Next Wave collects the work of today’s finest young writers—nineteen creative reporters whose work builds upon foundations laid by previous generations. Although naysayers predicted the decline of quality long-form journalism with the rise of the Internet, Next Wave is evidence that the genre is thriving—aided by the very medium that was initially portrayed as the executioner...read more

Product Description: Alternative newsweeklies—from stalwarts such the Village Voice, LA Weekly, and the Chicago Reader to more recent additions like Seattle’s The Stranger—have long covered the most provocative stories with some of the country’s sharpest writing and reporting...read more

Product Description: Lt. Col. Tim Maxwell prided himself on being a hard-core Marine—a patriotic Devil Dog on his third tour of Iraq. Then his brain was shredded with mortar shrapnel.Today, Maxwell has a large angry scar on the left side of his head...read more

Product Description: Jonathan Seede is the picture of Washington, DC, respectability, an urban pioneer with a pretty wife, a new baby, and a job at the town’s most esteemed newspaper. But ten blocks from the White House, on the notorious Fourteenth Street strip, a war is raging over deviant behavior...read more

The award-winning journalist author of Scary Monsters and Super Freaks offers a new collection of stories about mental illness and the dysfunctional undercurrent of American life, from the practices of midwestern swingers and the musical preferences of murderous youths to the anthropology of being beautiful in Hollywood. Original.

A fascinating tour of the underside of pop culture chronicles the murder of porn star John Holmes, the assassination of Irish reporter Veronica Guerin, the life of 'notorious' rapper Easy E. Winner, the white slave dalliances of Rick James, and much, much more. Original.