Posts Tagged: Dear Sugar
Rumpus 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!
...moreCheryl 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.)
...moreTake Their Advice
“Initially, I thought who am I to tell people what to do? Then I realized I wasn’t telling people what to do from the perspective that this is the only opinion and my opinion is the one that matters. I try to write with a sense of awareness and humility.
...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.
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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?
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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!
...moreGraduation Season Sugar
“The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in a life. For some of you, those things have already happened. Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow.
...moreDEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #98: Monsters and Ghosts
Dear Sugar,
My mother left my father the month I was born. She remarried and had my brother two years later. My stepfather (the only father I knew) committed suicide when I was five years old. My mother became a raging alcoholic following his death.
...moreCheryl Strayed Podcasted!
Brad Listi interviews Cheryl Strayed for his “Other People” podcast. Listen in as Strayed talks about being Sugar and the coming out party. More topics include:
“…Love, advice, self-help, narcissism, anonymity, personal vs. universal, internal vs. external, Pacific Crest Trail, Appalachian Trail, heroin, sex, grief, California, wilderness, blisters, Oregon, self-destruction, grunge, purification, journaling, book tour, William Faulkner, Adrienne Rich, The Rumpus, The Dream of a Common Language, family, suffering, pain tolerance, book burning, beauty, As I Lay Dying, and llamas.”
...moreCHERYL STRAYED IS SUGAR!(!!!)
We are ECSTATIC to announce that author Cheryl Strayed is Sugar!
Her forthcoming memoir, Wild, is our March Rumpus Book Club selection! (Click here to join.)
But that’s not all: we’ll be linking to numerous profiles, coverage of last night’s San Francisco Sugar Party, and more, right here.
...moreDEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #96: The Dark Cocoon
Dear Sugar,
Please oh please help me. I’m so mixed up and in so much pain that I’m beginning to be afraid I might kill myself, though I have two small children and basically know I can’t and would never, and I definitely know how crazy and self-dramatizing that is.
...moreSugar’s Coming Out Party!
The big day approaches. Sugar’s Coming Out Party is on Tuesday, February 14th (Valentine’s Day) at The Verdi Club in San Francisco (2424 Mariposa Street), 7pm.
Come out to meet Sugar live and in person as he/she reveals his/her secret identity!
...moreSugar Says
Last summer, Sugar wrote about taking on the Dear Sugar endeavor back in 2010 and how her approach has differed immensely from her original intent for the column. Creative Nonfiction brought the essay online in honor of our imminent unveiling.
...moreDEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #95: The Dudes In the Woods Debacle
Dear Sugar,
Three of my best college buddies and I go away for an annual guys weekend at a cabin in the woods.
...moreSalon Sugar Love
Salon columnist Cary Tennis praised Sugar, whose column he called “brilliant and affecting.” The appreciation is mutual; Sugar recently listed Tennis as one of her favorite advice columnists. With all this love going around it’s fitting that Valentine’s Day is Sugar’s coming out party.
...moreDEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #93: How The Real Work Is Done
I’m answering two letters at once this week, sweet peas.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #92: Your Invisible Inner Terrible Someone
Dear Sugar,
I’m 29 and dating a man that I adore; we’re planning to move in together soon. I have a stable job that I hate, but I hope that I’ll one day find something I enjoy. I have family and friends and hobbies and interests and love.
...moreDEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column: A Special Request
Dear sweet peas,
As long-time readers of this column know, it’s my tradition that every time I reach a “new decade” of columns I write shorter answers to several questions instead of the usual longer, single question column.
...moreDEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #87: In the Direction of Real Life
Dear Sugar,
I’m 26 years old and finally in a relationship I cherish and feel proud of. I want so much for it to thrive.
...moreDEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #86: Tiny Revolutions
Dear Sugar,
I’m a woman in my mid-50s. I read your column regularly and believe that my question is pedestrian but am humbly asking for your advice and support anyway as I sit in the pain of it all.
...moreWrite Like a Motherfucker (on Facebook)
Are you trying to write today but feeling distracted/unmotivated/lonely? If so, perfect. We’re taking “Write Like a Motherfucker,” Dear Sugar’s #48 column one step beyond…
...moreDEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #85: We Call This a Clusterfuck
Dear Readers,
This week I’m answering two letters together. Each letter is from one of the women involved in the situation detailed in the letters. I wouldn’t have known the two letters were connected but for the (unpublished) postscript one of the letter writers added, informing me that she knew the other woman involved had written to me as well.
...moreLast Call! A Sweet Proposal For Sugar Followers
So some of you have been sending in awesome visual representations of your Dear Sugar loyalty. For those of you who haven’t heard yet, we were inspired by the loyal band of Dear Sugar advocates out there and thought of a crafty way to reciprocate Thursday’s sugar fix.
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