Laura McKowen

Laura McKowen is the bestselling author of We Are The Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life and Push Off From Here: 9 Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety (and Everything Else). In 2020, she founded The Luckiest Club, an international sobriety support community. Laura has been published in The New York Times, and her work has been featured in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, the TODAY show, and more. She lives outside Boston with her daughter and fiancé.

Her third book, a memoir about love addiction, will be published by Ballantine in 2025.

What is Love Story?

Love Story is my weekly newsletter, published every Wednesday, where I talk (mostly) about addiction, recovery of all kinds, relationships, writing, and book publishing.

I’m currently taking paid subscribers behind the scenes as I write my third book, sharing things like how I organize my time, writing about other people, memoir structure, and more.

Each month, I share a roundup of Dig List of things I’m digging: books, podcasts, cultural moments.

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Where’d the name “Love Story” come from?

It’s from part of a poem I wrote years ago: Do not be mistaken / this is a love story / your whole life is a love story / it's just not the kind you think. 

I wrote it sometime in the middle of trying to get sober—when everything seemed dark and shitty, and love seemed very far away. Despite the dark and shitty, I knew the long arc of what I was going through was going to be, in the end, an epic love story. Not a romantic one; something far bigger.

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Your life is a love story, just not the kind you think. An honest look at relationships, recovery, and writing from the bestselling author of We Are The Luckiest and Push Off from Here.

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Bestselling author of We Are The Luckiest and Push Off From Here. Founder of The Luckiest Club sobriety support community. I believe in things I cannot see.