Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed

“When you’re speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.”

A fantastic interview with Cheryl Strayed on writing, what makes a great memoir, and the three ancient motifs in all great storytelling:

The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

Adrienne Rich

“She did not die a woman who denied that her wounds came from the same source as her power.”

Cheryl Strayed reads Adrienne Rich’s sublime homage to Marie Curie:

Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York

“I’d entered the city the way one enters any grand love affair: with no exit plan.”

Beloved women writers – including Cheryl Strayed, Roxane Gay, and Dani Shapiro – on loving and leaving New York.