Mike Sacks is an American author, humor writer, and magazine editor based in New York City

New York City

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. Sacks was born in Virginia and raised in Maryland before attending Tulane University

Tulane University

Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...

 in New Orleans.

Career

Sacks has worked at The Washington Post

The Washington Post

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, and is currently on the editorial staff of Vanity Fair magazine. He has written articles for several magazines, including The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Esquire and Salon. On writing, Sacks has said: "With the internet, anyone can write from anywhere.... You don’t have to go to New York if you want to write, you can just do it on your own and I encourage anyone who wants to do it to just go for it."

Selected publications

• Your Wildest Dreams
• And Here's The Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft
• Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk

Reviews

The A.V. Club states "The fun in Your Wildest Dreams is watching Sacks unpack his weirdness, and there’s plenty of weirdness to unpack."