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][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

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Sacks' collection of humorous photos of television shows has been featured on NPR and Gawker.[12][13] 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.[14][15][16][17][18]

In 2017, Sacks created a vanity press imprint dubbed "Sunshine Beam Publishing" which he created "primarily to publish stuff no one else would publish." As of 2022, Sunshine Beam Publishing has published six of Mike Sacks satirical works.[19][20]

Episodes of the podcast, Doin' It with Mike Sacks... and Rob!, have been produced since January 2016.^{[citation needed]}

Early life

Sacks was born in Virginia and raised in Maryland. He attended Winston Churchill High School before attending Tulane University in New Orleans.[21][22]

Books

• Sacks, Mike (July 8, 2009). And Here's The Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers. Writers Digest. ISBN 978-1582975054.
• Sacks, Mike; Thyre, Sarah (August 24, 2010). Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0307592163.
• Sacks, Mike (March 1, 2011). Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason. Tin House Books. ISBN 978-1935639022.
• The Believer (March 6, 2012). Care To Make Love In That Gross Little Space Between Cars?: A Believer Book of Advice. Vintage. ISBN 978-0307743718.
• Sacks, Mike (June 24, 2014). Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today's Top Comedy Writers. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0143123781.
• James Johnston (October 2, 2017). Stinker Lets Loose!. Sunshine Beam Publishing. ISBN 978-0692832080.
• Randy Dandy (September 11, 2018). Randy: The Full and Complete Unedited Biography and Memoir of the Amazing Life and Times of Randy S.!. Sunshine Beam Publishing. ISBN 978-0692135563.
• E.L. Lessert (July 1, 2020). Passable in Pink: A Prom Com. Sunshine Beam Publishing. ISBN 978-0578706290.
• Sacks, Mike (December 8, 2020). Slouchers: The Novelization. Sunshine Beam Publishing. ISBN 978-0578792057.
• Skippy "Batty" Battison (February 22, 2022). Passing On The Right: My Ups, My Downs, My Lefts, My Rights, My Wrongs ... and My Career (So Far) in this Bizarro World of Comedy. Sunshine Beam Publishing. ISBN 978-0578329499.
• Sacks, Mike (March 17, 2022). I Am Super Pumped! Let's Do This Shit!!!!!!!!!!!: The Marketing of "Passing on the Right". Sunshine Beam Publishing. ISBN 978-0578394985.
• Sacks, Mike; Roeder, Jason (April 26, 2022). Welcome to Woodmont College. McSweeney's Publishing. ISBN 978-1952119439.

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