Mike Sacks is the author of Poking a Dead Frog, Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason, and And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Humor Writers About Their Craft. He has written for Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, McSweeney’s, Radar, Funny or Die, MAD, New York Observer, Premiere, The Believer, Vice, Maxim, Women’s Health, and Salon. He has worked at The Washington Post, and is currently on the editorial staff of Vanity Fair.