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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #98: Monsters and Ghosts
You swam across a wide and wild sea and you made it all the way to the other side.
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Tiny 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.”
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Wild‘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…
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A WILD Night
If you missed Monday’s WILD Night with Sugar and The Rumpus, check out Electric Literature’s write-up and photos of the festivities. “As the band Widowspeak began playing and the reading ended, I thought that the dominant emotion throughout the evening…
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Anna Pulley on Savage Love
Rumpus contributor Anna Pulley (who Sugar named as one of her favorite advice columnists) helps Dan Savage answer a query on his latest Savage Love episode. Pulley doles out wisdom on lesbian-identified bisexual women and discusses her Salon piece “San…
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Wild is released!
Today’s the day. Sugar/Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild is out! You can celebrate by purchasing the book here. Also, check out Strayed’s recent interviews with NPR’s Weekend Edition, Interview Magazine, and Days of Yore.
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Cheryl Strayed’s Days of Yore
“When I feel afraid, that’s an indication that I’ve tapped into something worth writing about. Whenever my writing has made me cry or ask, ‘Can I really say that?’ that has always been the material that readers respond to most…
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“The Thousand-Plus-Mile Journey to Sugar”
At ZYZZYVA, Rumpus columnist Antonia Crane interviews Cheryl Strayed about Wild, rebuilding, Sugar, and more. “I bring a lot of the wisdom I gained on my hike into the “Dear Sugar” column. The most important one is that we always…
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The Secret About
Last weekend I rode the subway towards two indulgent firsts: I spent half of my latest paycheck in a swanky, mirror-lined restaurant with a coat check, and then I walked across the street and spent the other half on a…
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A Wild Adaptation
Have you heard? A film adaptation of Sugar/Cheryl Strayed’s Wild is in the works! Pacific Standard, a new production banner from actress Reese Witherspoon and producer Bruna Papandrea has bought the rights. Witherspoon will play Strayed in the film. More…
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Did Sugar Get ‘Shopped?
Jezebel wonders whether Vogue photoshopped Sugar/Cheryl Strayed in their recent interview. We don’t have an answer, but it’s sadly clear that Strayed doesn’t look like her beautiful self–or “like anyone,” as Jezebel puts it–in the photo.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #97: You Have Arrived at the Fire
You have arrived at the fire. Here’s the bread. Grab a hunk.