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Sarah Hepola’s memoir, “Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget,” was a New York Times bestseller. Previously she was personal essays editor at Salon, and a contributing editor at Nerve, where she also ran the Scanner blog on sex and culture. She was the film and technology editor at the Austin Chronicle and the music editor at the Dallas Observer. She was, ever so briefly, a high school English teacher. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Glamour, the Morning News, and on NPR. She lives in Texas.

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TV’s quiet 12-step revolution: Prestige comedies are changing the way we see addiction, sobriety and AA

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Teen Beat ruined me: Rob Lowe, Duran Duran and my sexy, screwed-up Gen X adolescence

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How did I get home last night? My bizarre, panicked life as a blackout drinker

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“Who are you and why are we f**king?”

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Teen Beat ruined me: Rob Lowe, Duran Duran and my sexy, screwed-up Gen X adolescence

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Anne Lamott: “We stuffed scary feelings down, and they made us insane”

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Sex, drugs and superheroes: Our 10 best personal essays

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Never show them your back

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Wigs are my superhero costume

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REO Speedwagon will save us

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Every woman should travel alone

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A picture of the author as a drinker and a smoker and a New Yorker. She is none of those things now. (Tara Copp)

My relapse years

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Hit on the head

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Nobody ever calls me anymore

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I always dated Tom Waits

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Surprised to see me

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My fake online boyfriend

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Whitney Houston’s lessons in love

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My iPhone foreclosure

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When my cat finally took to the leash

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When I finally stopped going to bars

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“The Killing’s” real killer

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My humiliating email disaster

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