"If your book's subtitle is Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World , you have a lot to live up to—and somehow Mike Edison does . . . Edison seems to have nine lives and enjoys every moment of each of them to the fullest . . . His journey takes him around the world, but he always returns to magazine writing, and his insider scoop on these bizarre workplaces is what, finally, makes this memoir truly memorable." — Penthouse "Cooler than Toby Young and more credible than James Frey."— Bookforum "Will have you alternately envying Edison and being glad you've avoided such encounters." — New York Daily News "Gloriously told . . . Surprisingly intelligent." — SF Weekly "[Edison's] an engaging, sardonic guide to some of magazinedom's more disreputable territories." — Entertainment Weekly "Brash, irreverent, funny as hell and beautifully written."— PopMatters