Sarah and I discuss the rawest chapter of her best-selling memoir, Blackout. One night on a magazine assignment in Paris, she drinks far too much with a friend, blacks out, then comes back into consciousness to find herself in a bedroom that is not hers, on top of a man she doesn't know. Afterwards, she politely leaves the room but her night is in no way over.

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I've known Sarah for 15 years and her book—and this episode—is much like Sarah in real life: brutally honest, super intelligent, and always funny. She is performative in a way that is never grating, and when our conversation turns to craft and writers who've inspired her, she lists some of the same people who've inspired me: David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers, Chuck Klosterman.

 

I'm beyond thrilled to have Sarah sit with me for the debut of Now That's a Great Story.