Patrick Sauer

Ass, gas or grass, nobody reads for free.

What’s the secret to life? The answer, I’ve discovered, is a stainless steel ring of fire.

I don’t do much personal essaying anymore, but inspired by the great “Last Normal Day” series at Luke O’Neil’s Welcome to Hell World substack (and because I couldn’t get my shit together in time to send it to him before it went on hiatus), I wrote about a decadent French dinner in Manhattan shared with my Dad, his wife Terry, and our Brooklyn Three on Tuesday March 10, 2020...

Mary Bacon lived a life nobody could imagine, nor would they want to. Truly tragically one-of-a-kind.

In August of 2017, I was swimming with my 6-year-old daughter in Brooklyn’s sparkling redo of the McCarren Park Pool, when I had a major flashback. I turned to her and attempted to explain the impossible.

“Daddy used to go to concerts here.”

Get to know the personalized celebrity greeting company whose top earner is the legend Gilbert Gottfried. For the lover of Aladdin and The Aristocrats alike...

On December 25th, legendarily hard-living singer Shane MacGowan turns 63. Happy Christmas, your arse. We pray it’s not his last.

Birbiglia mastered the stage, screen, and now the page, but had no faith in his Dad abilities. He and poetess wife J. Hope Stein tell their parental tale in The New One.

"Red Summer" was the nickname for the dog days of 1919 when American streets filled with African-American blood.

Shaq and Kobe; Kobe and Shaq, forever linked. In "Three-Ring Circus," author Jeff Pearlman takes readers back to the days when they could barely stand to be on the same court together, yet won back-to-back-to-back titles.

As the extremest of viruses ravages the country, pummeling African-Americans the hardest, comedian and ESSENCE Festival host alum Roy Wood Jr. has come up with the perhaps the most extreme method for curing all of the long-...

The 1970s were an amazing time for kid's TV. Raise your hand if you can still sing the theme song from "Electric Company," "Zoom," or "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids." Hey, hey hey...

In the 1970s, Peanuts went full-court into the tennis boom. Remember Molly Volley? Her former partner Snoopy does...

More than 58,000 United States soldiers died in the Vietnam War, but in the world of letters, the death of a single American civilian came to represent the entire jungle quagmire.

Michael Strahan is the busiest man in show business as I found out in the October cover story for Men's Journal.