![]() ![]() ![]() Rachel Syme - hostess/emcee/charmer for the evening. His nicely shaped head is directly proportional to his taste in Sugar columns. Hosted by writer and Fitzgerald biographer Rachel Syme, the evening was at turns funny, tender, and maudlin - maybe the last because I’d been in the beer line.ġ. All of this was to celebrate the release of Wild, a memoir by Cheryl Strayed, more intimately known as The Rumpus’s Sugar, the Ann Landers of all the sad young literary boys and girls. The tagline under the logo read “Waste time better.” Rumpy, the magazine’s mascot, was on the banner, stalwart, catching his ass in a net. #Dear sugar rumpus full#Past the beer line, which was full of former members of the outside line, was a stage with drums and guitars waiting for their musicians, and lights illuminating a giant Rumpus banner, which marked the head of the store like the top of its webpage. My Dishmate Ryan and I waited in line outside, repeated our last names to a woman holding a pen and clipboard, got tickets, walked into the dimly lit space. Įach time I visit Housing Works its vibe changes to match the event, and A Wild Night with Sugar and The Rumpus was the first time the bookstore looked anything like a club. Dana Hammer, a writer, with Abby Kulchin, a Philosophy PhD candidate at Philosophy (who finishes Friday - send her cake) and tutor at Brooklyn Institute. Also how many pretty people exist at 7:15 P.M. This is how many people read an advice column. ![]() New episodes of Dear Sugar Radio are released weekly.1. She has another novel coming out in April called “The Book of Joan,” and she’s working on a book based on her popular TED Talk, titled “The Misfit’s Manifesto.” Her most recent is the novel “The Small Backs of Children,” which won the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction, as well as the Reader’s Choice Award. Lidia Yuknavitchis the author of several books. Rene's forthcoming novel is “The Child Finder." It was also named best book of the year by The Oregonian. She’s the author of the acclaimed novel “The Enchanted,” which was a recipient of the French Prix Award and an ALA Medal of Excellence. Rene Denfeldsurvived a horrific childhood to become a death penalty investigator and social justice warrior. He’s currently looking for a publisher for his first book. His work appears in ten anthologies and many publications, including The Rumpus and The Kenyon Review. She’s also a creative writing professor at Reed College.Ĭooper Lee Bombardieris a writer and visual artist based in Portland, Oregon. Samiya Bashiris the author of the poetry collections "Gospel" and "Where the Apple Falls." Her newest collection is called "Field Theories," and it comes out in a few weeks. Her writing has also appeared in Salon, Electric Literature, and The Rumpus, among others. He’s also the editor of The Quietry, a bi-annual literary journal.Ĭari Lunais the author of the novel “The Revolution of Every Day,” which won the Oregon Book Award for Fiction. ![]() Sam Roxas-Chua is a poet and visual artist, and he’s the author of the poetry collection “Fawn Language.” He’s the owner of The Poetry Loft, a small business dedicated to community writing workshops and the promotion of poets and writers. The event also included music from Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, and it featured the voices of several Oregon-based writers, who performed original "Letters to America." Hear their full letters below. How do I let go of my anger when a 7-year old says she's scared her mother will be deported? How do I love-or even share a meal with-someone who voted for a man who hired a white nationalist as his senior adviser? How do I have empathy for them while also supporting the many people Trump's policies will oppress? What does radical empathy look like in this post-election landscape? The poet Wendy Chin-Tannerwas a co-organizer of the event, and she joined the Sugars onstage to discuss this letter in particular: In this episode, the Sugars bring that question before an audience at The Aladdin Theater in Portland, Oregon, in Dear Sugar Radio: The Writers Resist. On November 9th, 2016 - the day after Donald Trump became America's President-elect - the Dear Sugar inbox was flooded with emails asking some version of the question, "How do we move forward as a nation from here?" Twitter facebook Email (Courtesy Jon Wippich) ![]()
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