Dear Sugar
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Cheryl 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,…
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CHERYL 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…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #96: The Dark Cocoon
Transformation isn’t a butterfly. It’s the thing before you get to be a pretty bug flying away.
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Sugar’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…
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Sugar 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.…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #95: The Dudes In the Woods Debacle
Let the dudes in the woods debacle bring you closer to your friends rather than force you apart.
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Salon 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…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #94: The Amateur
I don’t know exactly where we are now. I only know we’re at the place where the plot thickens.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #93: How the Real Work Is Done
We can all have a better life if we make one.
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Behind the Scenes of a Regular Sugar Reader
Sugar writes words that I would like tattooed on my tongue. That I want stitched onto my childhood quilt since I can’t actually stitch my heart up with them.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #92: Your Invisible Inner Terrible Someone
That mystery is not the curse of our existence; it’s the wonder.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #91: A Big Life
Aside from the people I love, there is little I value more than my education.