So we found out that Sugar is Cheryl Strayed, and as Erica recounts, I knew this in an instant awhile back when I read one of her (incredible, I might add) Cheryl Strayed essays, sitting in a cafe reading on my phone a bit that Erica had excerpted on her blog, assuming as I read, before I got to the attribution part of the Tumblr quote post, that I was reading a Sugar column. Then I saw the name: “Cheryl Strayed.” Then I fiercely googled. Then I emailed Erica. Then I DMed Stephen Elliott and he told me, “Sshhh.” Then I started doing little weekly dances in the kitchen asking Dustin if they had the galley of her book in at McNally yet and finally they did and I read it over Thanksgiving and fell so in love with it. I got to the great good reader place I haven’t been back to since. You know it when you find it. I wrote this in Tumblr back around Thanksgiving then decided it would be weird to publish before her book was out but now it will be out so soon and we can all get excited!
1. This book is next.
2. I miss being a columnist. The Tumblr Ask Box is the closest thing I have now.
Sometimes I miss Dear Sugar posts for weeks at a time on purpose, just so I could devour all of them at once. With hot coffee. On lazy Sunday afternoons. And allow myself to be completely swept away.
Needless to say, I’ll be getting this as soon as it comes out.
