portland wednesday 27 Cheryl Strayed interview It is a safe bet that the woman who hiked the Pacific Crest Trail with no experience and told her incredible story in her book, Wild, which was made into a major motion picture last year, just might have a few more tales up her sleeve. Of course some […]
Cheryl Strayed
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Cheryl Strayed’s Wild: Now with 100 percent more Reese Witherspoon!
“The last thing we need is a bunch of ill-prepared people who aren’t thinking clearly and are trying to find themselves,” huffed Donna Saufley, a former board member of the Pacific Crest Trail Association, to the New York Times in 2013. She was talking to Christopher Solomon, whose story “The Call of the Wild on […]
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Cheryl Strayed’s Next Chapter
Sitting down with a woman famous for hiking
Author Cheryl Strayed skyrocketed to literary stardom with her 2012 memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which recounts her 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. It has earned countless awards, will soon be released as a feature film starring Reese Witherspoon, and brings Strayed to Bend this week as […]
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Deschutes library announces star studded Author! Author! line-up
This past week, the Deschutes Public Library Foundation announced its second lineup for the popular Author! Author! series. In its sophomore year, the series is rolling out some of the best and most entertaining writers in the country. Leading the pack is Sherman Alexie, who burst onto the literary scene in 1993 with his collection […]