#THE RUMPUS DEAR SUGAR PLUS#

You assume the woman answering the questions has her whole life together, and always has. If you donвЂ™t know Strayed, which at the time of writing to вЂњSugarвЂќ these people in need of advice didnвЂ™t. She seems to know how much of each ingredient her response needs and takes her time to doll it out. She reminds people they know the answer, or she guides them toward what she thinks is right, or she shuts them down, or she builds them up. She is never condescending and seems to always come from a place of working it out the best you can. Strayed does a thorough and compassionate job of answering the letters. That at once seems obvious and still unique and is specific and still universal. Rich with humor, insight, compassion-and absolute honesty-this bookВ is a balm for everything life throws our way.

#THE RUMPUS DEAR SUGAR PLUS#

This bestselling book from the author of Wild collects the best of The RumpusвЂ™s Dear Sugar advice columns plus never-before-published pieces. If youвЂ™re not familiar with the Rumpus magazineвЂ™s Dear Sugar columnВ here is a little of what you can expect from this book. Now, I love advice columns, but only if Cheryl Strayed is giving the advice. Well, now that IвЂ™ve read Tiny Beautiful Things, that has all changed. It is not something I seek out, or something that I have any interest in. The вЂњDear SugarвЂќ column has generated more than two million views in the last two years.I have never read an advice column in my life. I like the idea of standing before the audience as a real person.вЂќ вЂњI encourage readers to peel back the layers and reveal the truth and IвЂ™m going to do that too. вЂњFrom the beginning, I said I was going to reveal my identity,вЂќ Strayed said, explaining that it was a coincidence that Wild is being published next month. вЂњSome of my best writing is in that column.вЂќ Strayed insisted that she did not come out as Sugar on ValentineвЂ™s Day as a publicity stunt for her memoir, which has already generated much pre-publication buzz, including a profile in PW, or for StrayedвЂ™s collection of вЂњDear SugarвЂќ columns, Tiny Beautiful Things, scheduled to be released by Vintage in July.

вЂњI approached it as a storyteller, вЂњ said Strayed, who has been writing вЂњDear SugarвЂќ for the past two years.

In a conversation with PW earlier this week, Strayed insisted that writing an advice column could be construed as an art form. Steve Almond ( Candyfreak), the first author behind the weekly вЂњSugarвЂќ column, who wrote 26 columns before handing it on to Strayed, who wrote the next 60 columns, introduced her to the crowd at the ticketed event.

Her advice to a frustrated writer ('Write like a motherfucker') became a rallying cry for readers of the Rumpus and has inspired mugs and posters with the phrase. вЂњDear SugarвЂќ is renowned among its fans for its frank and no-holds-barred advice, peppered with references to literature, as well as with compelling stories from the authorвЂ™s own life about such subjects as sexual abuse, heroin use, marital infidelity, raising children, and even writerвЂ™s block. Portland, Ore.-based writer Cheryl Strayed, the author of Torch (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), and whose memoir of her hike on the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995, Wild, will be released by Knopf in March, was introduced as Sugar before 300 guests at the Verdi Club in the cityвЂ™s Mission district. Last night, The Rumpus (the literary online magazine founded in 2008 by the writer Stephen Elliot ( The Adderall Diaries), hosted a party in San Francisco to reveal the identity of its wildly popular advice columnist, вЂњSugar,вЂќ about whom it was only known that he or she was a published author.

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