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Sarah Hepola on Drinking in a "Dry" Texas County
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Sarah Hepola on Drinking in a "Dry" Texas County

An interview with Sarah Hepola

New Books in Drugs, Addiction and Recovery · Marshall Poe

August 3, 202142m 2s

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Show Notes

Welcome to Cover Story, a podcast by New Books Network devoted to long form journalism. Today, we are talking to Texas-based writer Sarah Hepola. Hepola is most known from her brave writing about drinking and the 2015 bestselling memoir Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget.

She's appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air and published in The New York TimesThe Guardian, Bloomberg Businessweek, Salon and Texas Monthly, where she is a writer-at-large. Today we are talking about her recent story “In Mobile City Everybody Knows Your Name” from August 2021 Texas Monthly. A very fresh piece.

Agata Popeda is a Polish-American journalist. Interested in everything, with a particular weakness for literature and foreign relations.

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