Episode 1530: Sacha Z. Scoblic / Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety

"There's no reason to wait until you're in a public park with your pants around your ankles to be like, Wait! I should quit drinking!" —Sacha on SRN Sacha Zimmerman Scoblic is a writer and editor. She is the author of Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety, which is based on her popular essays for The New York Times‘s “Proof: Alcohol and American Life.” Currently, Sacha is an MFA candidate at NYU’s low-residency program in Paris, where she is writing a novel. She spends her days at the Watergate as the proud copy-chief for National Journal. Sacha is a former Rosalynn Carter fellow for mental health journalism through the Carter Center in Atlanta. Previously, Sacha worked at The New Republic for 13 years and even spent a few years at Reader’s Digest. She has written about everything from space camp to pulp fiction. Sacha lives with her son, Theo, and terrier, SciFi, in Washington, DC. Sacha/Unwasted on the Web: Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety / http://sachazscoblic.com/unwasted/ @sachaZscoblic on Twitter / https://twitter.com/sachaZscoblic