Comedy Writer Mike Sacks Thinks Most Gen X Movies Were Bullshit…And Now He’s Written One

Ian Goldstein
11 min readDec 9, 2020
Sacks working at Kemp Mill Records in Aspen Hill, Maryland, around 1994

Over the last few years, comedy writer Mike Sacks, author of NYTimes bestseller Poking a Dead Frog, has begun publishing comedic novelizations of fake movies. His 2017 release, Stinker Lets Loose!, was a novelization to a fake trucking movie from the ’70s, in Passable In Pink, it was a John Hughes-esque movie from 1983. Now he’s releasing a…

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Ian Goldstein

Writer/producer/person based in Brooklyn. Work in: New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Vulture, Slackjaw, Points In Case. I eat many doughnuts, regardless of my funds.