Reading: Cheryl Strayed

In this recording from Thursday, March 21st, 2013, during the 44th Annual UND Writers Conference, “A Portrait of an Artist,” Cheryl Strayed discusses her life leading up to her books, mainly her book Wild, and the passing of her mother. She reads from Wild and discusses her Pacific Crest Trail hike. She reads from her book, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar. She answers questions from the audience. Topics for questions include: family members reactions to Wild, relationship to children, burning her books on her hike, her writing processes, and taking her children into the wild. Introduced by Therese Borkenhagen

KNPR Interview

Cheryl Strayed has written a novel Torch and her new memoir Wild is out next month. It recounts her adventures on the Pacific Crest Trail. Strayed will also be speaking at the Black Mountain Institute on a panel about Not Your Grandmother\u27s \u27Sense and Sensibility.\u27 We talk to her about her writing and what she thinks has shaped the modern woman writer

An Evening with Dear Sugar

Author Cheryl Strayed talks to Carolyn Cooke about her writing style, her work as Dear Sugar, and her best selling book, Wild.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/publicprograms/1027/thumbnail.jp

Cheryl Strayed, Raymond Carver Reading Series, November 20, 2013

A video recording of Cheryl Strayed reading from her work on November 20, 2013 as part of the Syracuse University Creative Writing Program\u27s Raymond Carver Reading Series. Running time: 40:06

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Panel: Diving into the Wreck

In this recording from the Thursday, March 21st, 2013 noon panel: “Diving Into the Wreck,” during the 44th Annual UND Writers Conference, “A Portrait of an Artist,” Nick Flynn, Cheryl Strayed, and Ed Bok Lee answer questions regarding their fiction. Steven Morrison opens the panel with an excerpt from Adrienne Rich\u27s poem, “Diving Into the Wreck,” and asks if the words describe the authors\u27 work. Topics for discussion include: the importance of physical locations in their work, how location promotes change in character, conflicts between writing memoirs and getting at objective truths, tools that help with difficult writing, revisions, and about qualifiers in nonfiction. Panel moderated by Steven R. Morrison