Early in 2010, Cheryl Strayed got an e-mail from an acquaintance, Steve Almond, who wrote an advice column"Dear Sugar"for the literary Web site The Rumpus. Strayed was living in Portland with her husband and their two preschoolers, and had just turned in the first draft of her memoir, "Wild." She'd written Sugar a fan letter, not knowing that it was Almond. He asked if she was interested in taking over the column. "H…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 11:00PM on December 4, 2016