Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason collects Mike Sacks's unique humor pieces--craigslist ads, lesser-known tantric positions, letters to famous authors, lists, jokes, and the occasional illustration--into one handsome volume. Ever accidentally sent a mass e-mail to your office describing your Not Safe-For-Work fantasy kingdom? Or been confused about the ground rules at a cuddle party? Looking to rent an overpriced room in the Hamptons from a co-dependent sociopath with a checkered past (and a hot tub)? Good. Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason collects Mike Sacks’s unique humor pieces—Craigslist ads, lesser-known tantric positions, letters to famous authors, Shaft living in the suburbs, a classic-rock DJ suffering a nervous breakdown, the occasional list—into one handsome, convenient volume. Originally published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and McSweeney’s, among other venerable publications, Sacks’s writing is original and sharp, yet broadly funny. Whether it’s a groom tweeting his wedding and honeymoon in real time, or a publisher offering editorial suggestions for The Diary of Anne Frank, Sacks’s work tangles contemporary social satire with his absurdist sensibilities. "Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason makes you laugh out loud, and at the same time it inspires wonder. 'This is my language?' you’ll find yourself thinking. 'Really?' Nowhere else will you read the phrase 'shame spiral eye patch' or find the word 'robot' alongside 'with a bar tending degree.' This is to say that Mike Sacks is not just a sensational comic writer, but a sensational writer—period. —David Sedaris "Sacks and his various co-writers are gifted humorists, and it's safe to say that any reader will emit chuckles, guffaws, and chortles on nearly every page." — Booklist "An enjoyable collection of zaniness." — Kirkus Reviews “Sacks (coauthor of Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk ) offers 54 short humor pieces, including 25 written in collaboration with fellow humor writers Todd Levin, Scott Jacobson, Bob Powers, Jason Roeder, Scott Rothman, Will Tracy, Ted Travelstead, and Teddy Wayne. The essays, many of which were published in McSweeney's and the New Yorker , is a selection of contemporary social satires, such as signs a college is not very prestigious ('Marching band uses only handclaps') and a bridegroom on Twitter ('Attempting to fist-bump rabbi'). The essays include icebreakers to avoid ('This party reminds me of 9/11'); a director's commentary on the DVD rerelease of a 1990 bar mitzvah video; and a rejection letter to Anne Frank: 'Unfortunately, we receive so many unsolicited teenage diaries composed in European attics that it is impossible to publish each one.' Highlighting this often hilarious book are Yu's many illustrations, such as the inclusion of Pynchon's muted post horn, and Sancton's 10 drawings depicting 'Everyday Tantric Positions' as well as an eight-page pantomime comic strip from Esquire about frustrating Ikea assembly instructions.” — Publishers Weekly “Smart and silly . . . Sacks particularly excels at literary satire . . .” —NPR “The pieces in Mike Sacks’s Your Wildest Dreams Within Reason succeed on tight, comedic premises . . . enjoying them together gives the reader a deeper understanding of Sacks’s delight in the mundane.” — Time Out New York “If words strung together in a humorous manner are something you enjoy, put your eyes on this little beauty.”— Maxim “Laugh-out-loud” —VF Daily "Reliably funny.” — Portland Mercury “One of the funniest books I’ve read in a long time . . . the pastiche, the parody, the absurd vignette, the comic list – Sacks can do it all.” —Spiked Online "Brilliantly deadpan and somewhat pathological pieces. . ." — LA Weekly “His playful approach to reality could fill a thousand pages and still be fresh and funny.” —Blog Critics “The fun in Your Wildest Dreams is watching Sacks unpack his weirdness, and there’s plenty of weirdness to unpack.”—The A.V. Club “Mike is a brilliant and hilarious writer.”—Comedy Central Insider “There are lines in this book so inexplicably funny, I wouldn’t dare try to impose any logic upon their mechanics . . . in a single book, Sacks manages to casually allude to numerous philosophers and ‘high-fallutin, authors and credibly pull-off the occasional poop joke.” —Splitsider “Had me laughing out loud on the 7 train . . .suffice to say Mike Sacks is my type of humor.”—Ron Hogan, Beatrice.com “There is no over-arching theme to these short pieces other than the fact that they are all “laugh-out-loud/piss-yourself-funny.” —Dangerous Minds “[Mike Sacks is a] comedic brick shithouse.” —Viceland.com “[Sacks] delights in imagining the world much funnier than most of us. His playful approach to reality could fill a thousand pages and still be fresh and funny . . . the laughs roll off the page.” —Blogcritics.org “A hugely eclectic and highly original collection.”—Stefan Sirucek, The Huffington Post “If you’re not prudish ab