Posts Tagged: Cheryl Strayed
Best Essays Anthology to Feature Rumpus Writers
Awesome news! Megan Stielstra’s Rumpus essay “Channel B” will appear in The Best American Essays 2013, guest edited by our very own Cheryl Strayed (aka Dear Sugar).
Seth Fischer’s “Notes from a Unicorn” will be listed as a notable essay.
...moreRumpus Women Should Be Writing for Harper’s!
The disparity of women writers in the publishing world has been an increasingly hot topic of late.
Flavorwire has compiled a list entitled “10 Women Who Should be Writing for ‘Harper’s,” and we’re excited that three of the women are our own essays editor Roxane Gay, Dear Sugar’s Cheryl Strayed, and Funny Women editor Elissa Bassist!
...more“Trying to Illuminate the Darkest Places”
Two Rumpus treasures in one…treasure chest? Necklace? Treasury?? Okay, this metaphor didn’t work out, but Thomas Page McBee‘s interview of Cheryl Strayed (aka Dear Sugar) did. A small preview:
...moreBut what I’ve found as a writer is that every time I thought, everyone’s going to condemn me, everyone’s going call me a slut, or say “How dare you have an abortion,” but the reverse has happened.
Cheryl Strayed Talk in Portland
Citizens of Portland!
On February 25, Portland State University is holding a Dean’s Inaugural Lecture featuring our very own Cheryl Strayed (aka Dear Sugar).
The event is free to attend, but you have to reserve a ticket in advance to guarantee yourself a seat.
...moreThe Art of Motherfuckertude
We all have these feelings inside us—anxiety, fear, trepidation, hope, desire—and our every effort becomes getting these things out. Writing that letter to you and publishing it was how I felt connected and compassionate.
Two and a half years ago, Rumpus Funny Women editor Elissa Bassist wrote a letter seeking advice from our Sugar.
...moreTiny Beautiful Things Makes Every List
Brain Pickings has come up with a list of The 10 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2012, and #2 is our own Sugar/Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things.
Don’t forget you can purchase the book at our Rumpus Shop.
...moreCheryl Strayed in the NY Times “Dream Dozen”
In their article “Twelve for ’12,” The New York Times gives love to Wild and Dear Sugar.
Ala the twelve days of Christmas, Cheryl is number five and wearing five golden rings. (She did not get to keep them.)
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“not asking for permission to be human”
The Millions interviews Cheryl Strayed about grief, Sugar, rejection, setting boundaries, and much more.
“That’s what authority is. When you’re actually writing from that deepest place within you, if you tell the truth, you’re using your greatest power and your greatest authority.
...moreMusings on the Life of the Writer
At The Millions, Emily St. John Mandel offers a peek into her writing world via tangential authors Susanna Moore and our very own Cheryl Strayed.
She reposts Cheryl’s Facebook status that lamented the lack of common knowledge regarding writing life: “There is a strong and vibrant literary culture that exists and thrives in this nation and it does not exist in a place called nowhere, whether you know about it or not.
...moreEthos of the Era
The Atlantic ruminates on how Cheryl Strayed‘s espousal of “motherfuck-itude,” self-reliance, and radical empathy is especially relevant in our post-recession era.
“Strayed’s path—hauling her needed possessions on her back down a free trail in Wild, or her gospel of ‘nobody is going to give you a thing’ in Tiny Beautiful Things—is one in which any reader, regardless of income bracket, can find purchase… To the many people who are struggling with underemployment and debt, Strayed’s advice through her Sugar persona on how to move through the day is a solace: ‘The unifying theme is resilience and faith.
...moreLearning to Truly Show Up
At the NYT Sunday Book Review, Cheryl Strayed reviews Andrew McCarthy’s new memoir, The Longest Way Home.
“If I had to cut out the heart of this book, that’s where I’d put the knife, on that boy in the snow on that dark night long ago.
...more“We don’t listen to the know-it-alls”
“When I tell the people who write me letters that their problems keep me up at night, I’m not joking. I’ve been given a huge gift with this column, and I knew I would write it like a motherfucker, but I didn’t know people would embrace Sugar the way they have.”
Cheryl Strayed talks with Bitch about how feminism informs her life and work, the beauty machine and being photoshopped, Dear Sugar as a community, and more.
...moreThe Rumpus Release Party for Dear Sugar’s Tiny Beautiful Things
The Rumpus Release Party for Dear Sugar’s Tiny Beautiful Things has sold out!
For those of you who have a ticket, we’re excited to see you this evening. For the rest of you, we hope you can make it to the next Rumpus event.
...moreThe Rumpus Release Party for Dear Sugar’s Tiny Beautiful Things
The Rumpus Release Party for Dear Sugar’s Tiny Beautiful Things is fast approaching! Join us Friday, July 27th at The Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa Street), 6:30pm.
Featuring readings from Elissa Bassist, Yuvi Zalkow, and the woman of the evening, Cheryl Strayed/Dear Sugar!
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Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me #13: Cheryl Strayed
Sari Botton talks with Cheryl Strayed about how she keeps finding the courage to be honest in her work – about herself and others around her.
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Get Your Sugar From the Source
Cheryl Strayed has a collection of her wildly popular Dear Sugar columns, some never before published, coming out in one week. The book is called Tiny Beautiful Things, and it is available for pre-order right here on The Rumpus!
Click here to purchase.
...more“This is where we must dig”
At The Millions, Jessica Gross reviews Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed’s forthcoming collection of Dear Sugar columns.
“Sugar forces us to swallow sometimes painful realizations about what we want, who we are, and what we therefore must do — or, if not that, the choices we must make.
...moreTime Interviews Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed talks with Time about Wild, Dear Sugar and Tiny Beautiful Things, how the Pacific Crest Trail has changed since 1995, current projects, and more.
“My intent was—stories, poems, they have been my guiding lights. I thought, why not give others what I’ve received from other literary forms?
...moreThe Rumpus Release Party for Dear Sugar’s Tiny Beautiful Things
The Rumpus Proudly Presents:
“The Rumpus Release Party for Dear Sugar’s Tiny Beautiful Things”
Click Here to Purchase Tickets!
Friday, July 27th at The Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa Street), 6:30pm.
With readings from Elissa Bassist, Yuvi Zalkow, and the woman of the evening, Cheryl Strayed/Dear Sugar!
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Get Your Sugar From the Source
Cheryl Strayed has a collection of her wildly popular Dear Sugar columns, some never before published, coming out this July. The book is called Tiny Beautiful Things, and it is available for pre-order right here on The Rumpus!
...moreCraft and Voice
“Cheryl Strayed uses her voice to emotionally connect with her readers, to use craft towards that end and not in spite of it. Which is all just to say that the lesson Cheryl is giving writers is just as valuable as the story Cheryl is giving readers: Don’t forget that craft is a means to an end, and not simply an end in itself.”
Rumpus contributor Seth Fischer writes about what Sugar‘s Wild taught him as a writer.
...moreOprah’s Book Club Returns with Sugar’s Wild
Oprah is reviving her book club. Her first pick? Cheryl Strayed’s Wild! Hooray for Sugar!
“I want to shout it from the Web. In fact, I love this book so much and want to talk about it so much, I knew I had to reinvent my book club.”
Hey Oprah, we’re gonna let you finish, but the Rumpus Book Club chose Wild in March.
...moreStrayed Ethics
Cheryl Strayed was this week’s guest ethicist for The New York Times Magazine.
She responded to three queries–relating to sex, money, and infidelity–with that Cheryl/Sugar blend of wisdom and wit.
...moreTiny Beautiful Things
Library Journal interviews Cheryl Strayed about Tiny Beautiful Things, her forthcoming collection of Dear Sugar columns. Strayed reveals the best and worst advice she’s ever received. The best? From her mother: “Zap them back with super love.”
...moreThe Rumpus Book Club Interviews Cheryl Strayed
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Cheryl Strayed about Wild, finding forgiveness through writing, Sugar, being photoshopped, and more.
On Not Playing It Safe
“P.S. Reading is a commitment. You’ve got to disengage and pay attention. But when done right, you enter a whole ’nother world. Kind of like a great record, at least those of yore which were not background but doors to an alternative universe.
...moreWild‘s Earned Transformation
“It’s not that she’s scraped off all the detritus of her past difficulties along the trail; rather, she’s become acutely aware of it and learned that the only possible way to proceed is forward, on a two foot-wide path, sweating and panting and bleeding – too exhausted to congratulate herself along the way.”
At ZYZZYZA, Byard Duncan reviews Cheryl Strayed’s Wild.
...more“Read It and Weep”
At The New York Times, Dwight Garner reviews Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, revealing the “cumulative welling up” he experienced while reading.
“…There’s nothing cloying about Wild. It’s uplifting, but not in the way of many memoirs, where the uplift makes you feel that you’re committing mental suicide.
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