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Mike Sager

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Mike Sager is a best-selling author and award-winning reporter. A former Washington Post staff writer under Watergate investigator Bob Woodward, he worked closely, during his years as a contributing editor to Rolling Stone, with gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Sager is the author of four collections of non-fiction, two novels, and one biography. He has served for more than fifteen years as a writer at large for Esquire. In 2010 he won the American Society of Magazine Editors’ National Magazine Award for profile writing for his article “The Man Who Never Was.” Many of his stories have been optioned for film. For more information, please see www.mikesager.com.

Sager is also the founding editor and publisher of The Sager Group. for more in
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ON FACING YOUR BIGGEST FAILURES

I have come nearly 2,400 miles to speak about my failure. The theater is full. The house lights are dark. The spotlights are bright, shining in my eyes. There will be a video posted. Unless the internet goes the way of the floppy disk, anyone will be able to watch for all eternity.

My allotted time is nine minutes.

Why did I agree to do this?

The last time I appeared as a performer on stage—not as a
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Published on April 19, 2014 10:34 Tags: children, crack, dads, failure, fatherhood, kids
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