![]() I write an advice column for WBUR’s website, so the idea of a podcast based on that came up. I was working with WBUR to develop a podcast with the wonderful Lisa. ![]() Our Musing editor, Mary Laura Philpott, talked to Steve and Lisa about how the show’s going so far and what we can expect. (For those who developed a Serial habit, this will fill the podcast craving as well.) The show came about as a result of a brainstorm between Almond and Lisa Tobin, a producer at WBUR, Boston’s NPR station. Together, they’re answering letters aloud in a weekly conversation. Strayed joins Steve Almond, the writer who originally created the “Sugar” persona and penned the column for over a year before Strayed took over as Sugar in 2010. Dear Sugar is back to give everyone a fix. But then what? Cheryl Strayed Withdrawal Syndrome sets in. They scour the internet for every article they can find with a Strayed byline. Perhaps they also buy her novel, Torch, and read that. ![]() ![]() Then they get hungry for more Cheryl Strayed so they come back and get Tiny Beautiful Things, Strayed’s book based on her popular Dear Sugar advice column at The Rumpus, and they fall in love with Strayed’s candor, compassion, and no-holds-barred personal storytelling all over again. Here’s what’s happening: Customers read Wild, love it, then see the movie and love that, too. Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond (photo via WBUR) ![]()
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