“Blackout”: Remembering the Media and Events I Forgot to Tell You About

On Tuesday, June 23, my first book, “Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget,” comes out. The following is for people who would like to play along.

BOOK EVENTS

Tuesday, June 23, McNally Jackson in New York City, 7pm

Thursday, June 25, Barnes & Noble Lincoln Park in Dallas, 7pm

Friday, June 26, BookPeople in Austin, 7pm

EXCERPTS

Elle Magazine, “Like a Virgin”

The Guardian, “Everyone has blackouts, right?”

REVIEWS

Kirkus Reviews: “A razor-sharp memoir that reveals the woman behind the wine glass”

Publishers Weekly: A “valiant, gracious work of powerful honesty”

More magazine: “Hepola avoids the tropes of the “getting sober” confessional and takes us into unexplored territory”

BookPage: “Her true bravery emerges in this memoir’s witty candor”

BEST OF THE SUMMER LISTS

People Magazine’s Top 12 books of the summer

Amazon’s best books of June

O Magazine, the season’s best biographies and memoirs

Los Angeles Times‘ 27 nonfiction books to check out this summer

Bustle Magazine’s Perfect Summer Escapes

iTunes best 20 books of June

Dallas Observer

INTERVIEWS

Elle Magazine

Soberistas

Mixed Media podcast

AND OTHER THINGS

Book trailer

“Lush for Life” reading, Oral Fixation

Video of me talking about the book in someone else’s tasteful apartment

Important footage of squirrel dropping nut