Dear Sugars Presents: Sugar Calling
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Hear the first episode of the New York Times podcast “Sugar Calling,” featuring our own Cheryl Strayed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, it's Cheryl. |
| 0:11.0 | I know. |
| 0:12.0 | How are you doing? |
| 0:14.0 | Good. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, I'm Cheryl Strayed. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm a writer and some people know me as dear sugar. |
| 0:22.0 | So, a couple of days ago, I called my old friend and writing teacher George Saunders |
| 0:28.0 | to check in. |
| 0:29.0 | So, isolating even more than we usually do, which is really saying something. |
| 0:32.0 | Right. |
| 0:33.0 | To be a writer and told, okay, now you have to socially distance and you're like, yeah, |
| 0:38.0 | that's what I've been doing for decades, right? |
| 0:40.0 | To celebrate. |
| 0:41.0 | No, exactly. |
| 0:42.0 | No, for the whole world. |
| 0:43.0 | If you don't know George's work, you're in for a treat. |
| 0:45.0 | He's a magnificent writer. |
| 0:47.0 | He's written several books among them, Lincoln in the Bardo, Pastoralia, 10th of December. |
| 0:53.0 | He's also written many beautiful short stories that appear in the New Yorker. |
| 0:57.0 | And whenever I read his work, I get that feeling of magnificence, that feeling of being truly |
| 1:04.0 | transformed and lifted. |
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