Mike Sacks

2 weeks ago | doinit.substack.com | Mike Sacks

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1 month ago | doinit.substack.com | Mike Sacks

It’s difficult to pin down an exact moment when I began to dislike the characters in John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club. There was a time (there’s always a time) when I saw each of them as I wanted to see them:John Bender, with his fingerless, leather gloves as the one I would call at midnight when the rest of my suburban world was sleeping, someone who’d …

1 month ago | mcsweeneys.net | Mike Sacks

- - -My latest book is called This Is How We Love: The Foto-Novel. It’s the story behind the worst movie to have ever won the Academy Award. Have you not heard of this movie? Let me tell you about it. But where to begin? Should we begin with the fabled “curse” that afflicted nearly everyone associated with this notorious film, including the gaffers and all three lighting technicians, not to mention the poor thespian pooch, Charlie Boy, the first of two canines to play “Bones the Blind Dog”?

1 month ago | contrarian.substack.com | Mike Sacks |Evan Vorpahl

By Mike Sacks and Evan VorpahlWith the help of wealthy out-of-state special interest groups, North Carolina’s Republican-dominated courts are trying to steal a state Supreme Court seat by throwing out as many as 65,000 North Carolinians’ lawfully cast votes. Last November, North Carolina State Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs defeated her Republican challenger, Judge Jefferson Griffin, by 734 votes. Riggs’s win has been confirmed by two recounts and an audit.

1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Mike Sacks

In March of 2019, 36-year-old Vanity Fair and New York Times contributor E.A. Hanks set off from her hometown of Los Angeles in her beloved 2017 Ford Transit, nicknamed “Minnie,” to recreate a road trip she’d taken with her mother along the transcontinental Interstate 10, from California to Florida, back in 1996. What resulted over these six months make up The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road, out this week from Simon & Schuster.