Episode 144: Cheryl Strayed

Published: June 3, 2015, 2:53 p.m.

b'Cheryl Strayed is the author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things.\\n\\n\\u201cThere\'s a long history, of women especially, saying \'Well, I just got lucky.\' I didn\'t just get lucky. I worked my fucking ass off. And then I got lucky. And if I hadn\'t worked my ass off, I wouldn\'t have gotten lucky. You have to do the work. You always have to do the work.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to TinyLetter, Trunk Club, and HP Matter for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\nShow Notes:\\n@CherylStrayed\\ncherylstrayed.com\\nThe Complete Dear Sugar Archive\\nStrayed on Longform\\n[1:00] Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Knopf \\u2022 2012)\\n[1:00] Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar (Vintage \\u2022 2012)\\n[4:00] "Dear Sugar #44: How You Get Unstuck" (The Rumpus \\u2022 July 2010)\\n[9:00] "What Wild Has Wrought" (Nicholas Kristof \\u2022 May 2015 )\\n[13:00] Torch (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt \\u2022 2006)\\n[28:00] "Dear Sugar #48: Write Like a Motherfucker" (The Rumpus \\u2022 Aug 2010)\\n[28:00] "Write Like a Motherfucker" coffee mug\\n[1:11:00] Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer \\u2022 Random House \\u2022 1996)\\n[1:13:00] "Oprah Talks to Cheryl Strayed" (O Magazine \\u2022 July 2012)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'