Articles Written By Sarah Hepola
Sarah Hepola is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Blackout. She lives in Dallas.
-
Personal Essays
Run for the Hills
The world MTV depicts is anything but real. But we don’t watch to escape, we watch because we can’t look away.
-
Watching
Video Digest: January 26, 2007
I love that there was a moment in time when we all watched The Golden Girls. Four single senior citizens, living and loving in Miami: I’m in! Obviously one...
-
Watching
Video Digest: January 19, 2007
If you just don’t get Napolean Dynamite, there’s nothing much for you to see in “Peluca,” the eight-minute short that inspired the movie. It has the same oddball...
-
Watching
Video Digest: January 12, 2007
In the summer of 1979, my older brother and I, along with my three cousins, decided to remake Star Wars on our family’s Super 8. Actually, they decided and I tagged...
-
Celebrity Magazine
The Day After the Morning After
Our story thus far: editor Drew Barrymore, who has been in an on-again, off-again relationship with reporter Vince Vaughn, is friends with copy editor Keira Knightley (who is smitten with sportswriter Matthew McConaughey)—that is, until a night of tequila shots.
-
Watching
Video Digest: January 5, 2007
Like many people with a soft spot for NPR, I learned about The Beaver Trilogy through a 2002 piece on This American Life, in an episode called “Reruns.” Produced by Starlee...
-
Watching
Video Digest: December 22, 2006
Best Videos of the Year There was a stretch this summer when I watched OK Go’s “Here It Goes Again” every morning. It was like my personal inspirational video,...
-
Watching
Video Digest: December 15, 2006
“Us nerds are the oppressed and downtrodden,” raps one MC in following trailer for Nerdcore for Life. But these days, it’s kind of hard to feel bad for nerds....
-
Watching
Video Digest: December 8, 2006
As if VH1 weren’t bad enough, YouTube has turned us into nostalgia-grubbing monsters, willing to sink hours tracking down some vaguely remembered scrap of childhood fun. And I, for...
-
Celebrity Magazine
The Lost Weeknight
Dismayed at the idea of collaborating with Vince, Drew needs cheering up. McConaughey orders the shots. A new episode in our fanfic series.
-
Watching
Video Digest: December 1, 2006
Every parent thinks their kids are the best, the cutest, the brightest. So when you click on a link called “Best Baby Breakdancer in the World,” you think—feh, no...
-
Watching
Video Digest: November 17, 2006
The clip of the week—and maybe the year—was this corporate Bank of America serenade using U2’s “One” as a blueprint on which to rhyme fierce couplets about...