Two years later, “Wild” became a motion picture starring Witherspoon in its lead role. “ was actually a cyclone meets a hurricane, meets a tornado, meets a typhoon, a tsunami – all the other weather ,” Strayed clarifies. Credit: Oprah Winfrey Network on Hulu įour months after “Wild” came out, Strayed’s third book, “ Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar,” came out, and she hit the road for her second book tour that year.
What the Pacific Crest Trail Taught Cheryl Strayed on SuperSoul Sunday. By the summer, the book ascended to number one on the New York Times bestseller list, and Strayed landed an interview with Oprah herself. “Wild” caught Oprah Winfrey’s attention, becoming the first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0 that year. “I just remember feeling so grateful and so wowed, and I thought that that was as big as it was going to get,” Strayed says. By the time “Wild” hit the Best Sellers list, Reese Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine had already optioned the book for film. Strayed, whose 2012 essay collection “Tiny Beautiful Things” was released as a limited series on Hulu last month, didn’t know she had hardly begun to summit. “Now I have exceeded any dream I had for myself as a writer.”
I'm on the mountaintop like this,” she affirms. “I remember hanging up the phone and crying with joy and looking out the window and thinking, “Here I am. That spring, at a Boston bookstore event for her freshly-minted memoir “ Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail,” she learned from her editor that the work had debuted at number seven on the New York Times bestseller list. With many writer-producers declining to promote shows due to the ongoing strike, The Business notes that Liz Tigelaar and Cheryl Strayed participated in this interview before the work stoppage began.Īuthor Cheryl Strayed describes the year 2012 as “a hurricane” in her life, a whirlwind culmination of her career in which she published two New York Times best selling novels within months of each other.
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