6/27/2023 0 Comments Cheryl strayed dear sugar![]() It paid nothing, I was busy enough writing and mothering my two young children, I didn’t have any expertise when it came to advice-giving. So when Steve asked I thought, “Why not?” I said yes within about thirty seconds of receiving his e-mail and then about thirty seconds later I thought of all the reasons I really should’ve said no. ![]() It just so happened that I was in the midst of this tiny lull in my writing life-only days before, I’d sent the first draft of my memoir “Wild” to my editor in New York, and I was waiting for her notes. ![]() My friend Steve Almond had been writing the column and he no longer wanted to do it, so he e-mailed me and asked if I’d like to take it over. An edited version of the exchange appears below. ![]() She recently took time to answer questions on anonymity, intimacy, and her relationship with her readers. On Tuesday night, at a coming-out party in San Francisco, Sugar formally introduced herself as Cheryl Strayed, a writer living in Portland whose new memoir, “ Wild,” will be the Rumpus Book Club’s pick for March. ![]() Her responses covered jealousy, the decision to have (or not have) children, drug addiction, and the unanswerable questions of life. She had children, a husband, student-loan debt, and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of open-minded, honest advice. Over the next two years, Sugar’s fans-a devoted readership that includes more than fifteen thousand Facebook and Twitter followers-learned bits about who she was. ![]()
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