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Sarah Hepola is the personal essays editor at Salon.com, where she reads people’s secrets for a living. She has written many stories about drinking and eating too much. Her essays on culture have appeared in the New York Times magazine, The New Republic, Glamour, The Guardian, Nerve, Slate, and The Morning News, where she has been a contributing writer for more than a decade. Her past jobs include: Travel columnist, music editor, film critic, sex blogger, and for about 15 seconds in the late ’90s, she taught high school English. She lives in East Dallas, where she enjoys playing her guitar poorly and listening to the “Xanadu” soundtrack.

Her memoir, “Blackout,” will be published by Grand Central on June 23, 2015. It was recently named one of ...more

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Meet your new Dallas Morning News Staff Writer

Dallas girl, circa 1979.

Growing up, I never wrote about Dallas. In the bedroom where I felt closest to happy, I scribbled stories on college-ruled notebook paper about a precocious girl in Maine (like Stephen King) or a troubled teen in Los Angeles (like the actresses I hoped to resemble) or a sophisticated woman in New York who probably did drugs (like everyone interesting).

I understood Dallas as

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	Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget 4.04 avg rating — 23,173 ratings — published 2015 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America by Samhita Mukhopadhyay (Editor), Kate Harding (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carina Chocano (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.11 avg rating — 2,037 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cornbread Nation 7: The Best of Southern Food Writing by Francis Lam (Contributor), Daniel Patterson (Contributor), Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.94 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Joan Didion Crosses the Street by Sarah Hepola, Jessica Francis Kane (Goodreads Author), Todd Levin 3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lagunas: Recuerdo lo que bebí para olvidar by Sarah Hepola, Enrique Alda Delgado (translator) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Blackout, The Sober Diaries, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober Journal 3 Books Collection Set by Sarah Hepola, Clare Pooley (Goodreads Author), Catherine Gray (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Runners World Magazine November 2021 Strength For Speed [Single Issue Magazine] Hearst Communications, Inc. by Ashley Mateo, Jess Movold, Rachel Levin 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Sometimes people drift in and out of your life, and the real agony is fighting it. You can gulp down an awful lot of seawater, trying to change the tides.”
― Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

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“We all live in the long shadow of the person we could have been.”
― Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

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“Sobriety has a way of sorting out your friendships. They begin to fall into two categories: people you feel comfortable being yourself with—and everyone else.”
― Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

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