Stoned Again: The High Times and Strange Life of a Drugs Correspondent
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (883 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 098626797X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 226 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Who doesn't love Super Freak and Freeway Rick Mike Bagack Someone had to take over gonzo after Hunter S. Thompson left us and that person is Mike Sager. With Stoned Again you get nine action packed stories in this book from weed to Rick James to the Real Rick Ross. Who doesn't love Super Freak and Freeway Rick. My
This is a seminal collection by a master of the form." -Wil S. Hylton, New York Times Magazine contributor, author of Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II "In Stoned Again, Mike Sager refers to himself as a 'drugs correspondent, ' but that's legitimately humble smoke that belies what's really going on here. A whole gener- ation of writers has been shaped and guided by his work. If you are a marijuana smoker, you'll find this book a good read." -Keith Stroup, founder of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws . While there's plenty of weed, heroin, shrooms, and crack (not to mention plenty of Ricky James, bitch) in these pages, what is most evi- dent on every page is the remarkable reporting
Hylton, author, Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II. A whole generation of writers has been shaped and guided by his work. While there's plenty of weed, heroin, ‘shrooms, and crack (not to mention plenty of Ricky James, bitch) in these pages, what is most evident on every page is the remarkable reporting, empathy, craftsmanship, and storytelling that have rightly placed Mike Sager among the journalistic legends of our time." --Maximillian Potter, author, Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World’s Greatest WineFrom the brutal days and nights of life inside a crack gang in Los Angeles, to the artistic miseries of young heroin addicts on the ultra-hip lower east side of New York; from the Sonoran desert where Carlos Castaneda made his earliest shamanic discoveries, to the cell at Folsom Prison where the author first encountered the King of Funk, Rick James, to the modest headquarters of the
Thompson. For more information,please see MikeSager. He has served for more than eighteen years as a writer at large for Esquire. Mike Sager is a best-selling author and award-winning reporter. . Sager is the author of 6 collections of non-fiction, two novels, and one biography. A former Washington