Mike Sacks

Mike Sacks is an American author and comedy writer based in New York City. He has contributed to the New Yorker, McSweeney's, Esquire, Salon, Vanity Fair, GQ, Believer, Vice, the New York Times and the Washington Post. Sacks is a New York Times bestselling author. His works have been featured on Vulture’s “Best Comedy Books of the Year” list.

Sacks has written four comedy audio projects, two through Audible, featuring Jon Hamm, Rhea Seehorn, Andy Richter, Paul F. Tompkins, Philip Baker Hall, Bobby Moynihan, John Waters, Adam Scott, Gillian Jacobs, Bob Odenkirk, Laraine Newman, and others.

Sacks has been featured in Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Orleans Picayune, The Onion AV Club, Vulture, McSweeney's, Believer magazine, Cracked, and other publications. He has appeared on BBC, CNN and NPR's Weekend Edition.

In 2017, Sacks created a vanity press imprint dubbed "Sunshine Beam Publishing" which he created "primarily to publish stuff no one else would publish."