Join us for an evening with New York Times bestselling author Sarah Hepola as she explores the  search for love in her acclaimed new memoir, The Only Thing There Is to Want: A Memoir of Three Loves.

Free RSVPs encouraged. Tickets include a copy of the book and a reserved seat.

About the Book

The New York Times bestselling author of Blackout excavates the three romantic entanglements that defined her adulthood—an  examination of the blurry line between affection and obsession revealing the restless wanting that hums in us all.

In The Only Thing There Is to Want, Hepola revisits three complicated love affairs from her past, seeking to understand how they might have kept her from the life she'd envisioned, but also made her who she is.

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"Insightful, original, and hilarious. When it comes to memoir, [Hepola] is one of the best to ever do it."
—Christie Tate, New York Times bestselling author of Group

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"Sarah Hepola writes with so much heat about the pull toward a turn-your-soul-inside-out closeness. The Only Thing There Is to Want is a demonstration of her seductive powers: Her writing is magnetic, incandescent, and gripping."
—Susan Burton, author of Empty

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"Sarah Hepola's witty, candid, and gripping portrait of modern love plumbs the depths of desire, heartbreak, and a form of grief we don't often name—capturing something essential about the search for connection in our disjointed age. The Only Thing There Is to Want reckons with the gift and curse of dating as a Gen X woman."
—Ada Calhoun, New York Times bestselling author of Why We Can't Sleep and Crush

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About the Author

Sarah Hepola is a staff writer for The Dallas Morning News. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Texas Monthly, The Atlantic, The Cut, Elle, The Guardian, and Salon, where she was a longtime editor. Her first book, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, was a New York Times bestseller.

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She's the creator and host of the Texas Monthly narrative podcast America's Girls, about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, and the co-host of the weekly culture podcast Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em. Hepola lives in Dallas, Texas.

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