Modern Love Presents: Sugar Calling
Modern Love
The New York Times
4.3 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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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 | We're not getting in here. |
| 0:16.0 | 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 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. |
| 0:37.0 | And you're like, yeah, that's what I've been doing for decades, right? |
| 0:40.0 | No, exactly. |
| 0:41.0 | No, 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 and the Bardot, Pastoralia, Tenth of December. |
| 0:52.0 | 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 transformed and lifted. |
| 1:08.0 | He's done it as a writer, but he's also done it as a person. |
| 1:12.0 | University, where I was once one of your students and you were my teacher in the first... |
| 1:16.0 | Star students, I'm here to start. |
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