Since it was popular enough to be made into a movie, perhaps it would be The day of her funeral was breezy and sunny. Both stories are spoken in first person so the reader can hear directly from the author’s point of view. “Obviously vice versa, because she’s pretty amazing—but when I was first thinking, Oh, that was totally him! Maybe I tend to enjoy reading about long journeys on foot, but I decided to give this book a chance, despite Oprah’s endorsement. The movie also removes their mother’s second husband, Eddie. How do I do that? At the moment of the interview, Strayed, 46, had just received her copy of Vanity Fair's December issue, where she is featured in a full-page spotlight. Ad Choices. With the help of several libraries, eBay, and the Hobo Museum, I found nearly every edition from 1995 and 1996—none of them mentioning Strayed or Jerry Brown. This cinematic shorthand also extends to some of the darker moments in her life. But producers Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea knew better. “I would remember a story like that—especially from a female out on a journey like that,” Hopkins said. He was enamored with the book and had sent Strayed an email after he read it. Cheryl Strayed.” Trudy Hannam says: February 7, 2013 at 10:17 pm. And one would think that the natural choice, the smoothest transition from page to screen, would be for Strayed to adapt her book into the screenplay. The scene in the film where Witherspoon takes her first steps on the Pacific Crest Trail was shot in the exact spot in California where Strayed started her journey. It detailed her journey of self-discovery as she took a 1,100 mile solo-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995, starting in the Mojave Desert in … Part of HuffPost Entertainment. This is not a book about hiking the PCT as I was lead to believe, but a book about a heroine and sex addict hitchhiking across an area generally near the PCT after her mother died when she was 22. ©2021 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m so glad it was him and not some other creepy guy that could’ve been out there.’”, I sent Strayed a picture of Stetson given to me by Fellows, who described her father as looking like Jack Nicholson. Danticat is not as expressive and personal as Strayed. Meadow Ed and Roger. Yet in the film version, it’s a brief encounter. And I think maybe more powerful in the film than it is in the book. Fellows suspects her father likely saw much of his daughter in the young hiker—and would’ve reacted in similarly protective fashion to Strayed’s description of Jimmy Carter. Danticat is not as expressive and personal as Strayed. This is an edited transcript of the book club discussion. “I know it was my dad. Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapter. This is a great book.” —Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia and Seeking Peace “Cheryl Strayed is one of … That’s him! And she knew none of my stories. The minister from the local funeral home, who clearly had … “When I first heard about it, I was excited for her that she got to meet him,” said Fellows. “When I was writing about that, I was telling a literal story of what happened, but I was also mindful of the metaphor,” Strayed said. Wild: Lessons from Cheryl Strayed’s Memoir Wild is the 2012 memoir of the American author Cheryl Strayed. Wild is a 2014 American biographical adventure drama film directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. They optioned the rights to “Wild” before the book was even released, and Witherspoon signed on to produce and star as Strayed. Her daughter introduced him to a friend, saying, “This is Jean-Marc. It’s the only part of the movie that makes me wince, just a little,” she said. One of those things happened; one did not. I choked on one when I was little—he always had those!”, Stetson also worked in real estate and often traveled throughout California, so his meeting with Strayed more than 500 miles north of his home would check out. Cheryl Strayed: You need to tell your brother-in-law that he’s no longer allowed to touch you, sit next to you or make comments about your appearance. It has almost no online presence, save a few personal blogs from affiliated N.H.A. When asked if Hornby added the graphic alley scene himself, Strayed admitted she doesn’t know. And this picture you sent looks very familiar. He was a real character. Cheryl Strayed and her brother, Leif, and sister, Karen, with their mother. After her mother died suddenly from lung cancer when Strayed was 22, she and her brother were forced to shoot their mother’s horse when the animal became too sick to live. “I sort of assumed that he never wrote the piece,” said Strayed. An infant–well-being consultant and mother of three who will soon be relocating to her native California (she grew up in Woodland Hills), Fellows is certain that Strayed’s “Jimmy Carter” was her father. Maybe the people who knew Bob are right and it was him since they think it was (i.e., it seemed like him to them).”. Our respective, intense desires to move forward in our lives were unspoken. I had to know if this colorful character was even aware that he'd made it to the page and screen, and I wanted to re-unite him with the woman he met on that California highway 20 years ago. It’s a decision that came up often enough in interviews that Strayed, over drinks at the London Film Festival, asked the team why they never talked to her about writing the screenplay herself. Oprah’s book list and mine rarely overlap. Cheryl Strayed (far right) with her sister, Karen and brother, Leif Credit: Courtesy of Cheryl Strayed In the movie, however, the family unit is simplified to a single mother and two children -- just Strayed and her brother. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images), new book club just months after it was published in 2012. (It has since been translated into 30 languages.) It is one of the most haunting and memorable moments in Strayed's memoir. When asked if this bothers her, Strayed thoughtfully discussed the different capacities and limitations that film and literature present. “As founder of N.H.A., I was hands-on with every issue and don't recall that type of article.” When Hopkins located a copy of the elusive Fall 1995 edition, in which Strayed most likely would have appeared, he confirmed it: “No mention of ‘Jimmy Carter’ or a solo female hiker,” he e-mailed me. Ruling: Fiction. I first came to Strayed’s story in her memoir Wild, published in 2012. When I spoke with Hopkins (road name “Santa Fe Bo”), I only knew the name that Strayed gave the writer in Wild, and Hopkins didn’t recall any Hobo Times writers called Jimmy Carter, or a story about a woman who fit Strayed’s description. Alluding to the film’s need to get a point across quickly, she continued, “They had to be like ‘Okay, she’s a slut!’”. “I had not met Nick at that point, but I knew who he was and loved his work. Cheryl’s only family was her mother and brother. What Hopkins did remember was a car like the one described in Wild—a silver Chrysler LeBaron packed to the windows with newspapers, books, and clothes—that belonged to his brother-in-law, Bob “Itchy Foot” Stetson. The Woman Behind Wild: Cheryl Strayed on Her Mom, Her Marriage and Her Friend Reese The author shares candid confessions – including what her husband thinks of Wild 's sex scenes “In the book, I could give you everything,” Strayed said. Cheryl Strayed Author, Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things; co-host, Dear Sugars podcast Portland, OR “I Spent hours in my room playing games and We made it easy for you to exercise your right to vote! Cheryl Strayed is already something of a phenomenon in the US, where her hiking memoir, Wild, held the No 1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list … The Rumpus Book Club talks with Cheryl Strayed about Wild, finding forgiveness through writing, Sugar, being photoshopped, and more.. I answer letters to Dear Sugar via my new, paid subscription newsletter called the Dear Sugar Letters on Substack. For starters, her family was restructured for the film. "My parents were so amazing. From the awards race to the box office, with everything in between: get the entertainment industry's must-read newsletter. Will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Here is an excerpt from my journal: June 24, 1995: She was just breaking camp at 10 a.m. She left Mojave about 10 days ago, or more, and I was the first hiker she met! Not only was this my book -- it was my life. The cumbersome killing of that horse represents an unsolved trauma in her life. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. . The author of four books, her writing has been published widely in anthologies and major magazines. . All rights reserved. I think you’re brilliant.’”. The movie cuts out a few important people in Cheryl’s real life. Cheryl Strayed is the author of “Tiny Beautiful Things,” “Torch,” “Brave Enough,” and the New York Times best seller “Wild.” Her books have been translated into more than 40 languages. As she found the page in the magazine, the grin on her face was practically electric. It is one of the most haunting and memorable moments in Strayed's memoir. he was so unique.” Strayed's trek, taken in the wake of her mother’s death, had re-united a daughter with her father, years after his passing. By Cheryl Strayed (as told to Leigh Newman) This story of adventure, loss and personal growth is one of those books that readers can't get enough of—literally. Stetson passed away in 2010 at the age of 65, but Hopkins’s aforementioned niece, Jennifer Fellows, was happy to fill in the blanks. Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild, the New York Times bestsellers Tiny Beautiful Things and Brave Enough, and the novel Torch. The smile is what I remember the most in looking at this shot.”, Even more important, though, Strayed says, is how the people who knew Stetson reacted to the book. When I told Fellows of my possible discovery, she was effusive. The minister from the local funeral home, who clearly had … in the fall issue of the Hobo Times.” In the book, Strayed called the man Jimmy Carter; in reality, she told me, he said his name was Jerry Brown—she maintained the spirit of the original California politician by swapping it with that of a nationally known one. You can find the link to subscribe on my Newsletters page. Cheryl states in her memoir that following her mother's death, she and her siblings grew distant from one another. Real life: This is ultimately the biggest change to the film. Browse photos from Cheryl's life and journey to self-discovery. Cheryl Strayed (far right) with her sister, Karen and brother, Leif Credit: Courtesy of Cheryl Strayed (Strayed told the story of recently having been with her daughter and Vallée. and director of the Hobo Times used his real name, and Bobb Hopkins turned out to be the easiest person to locate in the process—he’s a film actor, writer, director, and producer credited on IMDB and has a production company called Super Chief Films. Roger and Cheryl Strayed sitting across from each other in the back. He wrote, ‘I absolutely loved your book. CHERYL STRAYED is the author of the #1 New York Times best seller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which was the first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0 and became an Oscar-nominated film starring Reese Witherspoon;Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, a national best seller now the basis of the WBUR podcast Dear Sugar Radio, co-hosted … I did not know Cheryl’s personal story or that it would become a bestseller 18 years later. “Ah, darling, I don’t believe in that,” Papandrea replied. When Strayed sat down to write about her life unraveling at age 26 in response to her mother’s early death, her divorce, her fling with heroin and her daring decision to hike the Pacific Crest Trail alone -- the 2,650-mile wilderness path that runs through California, Oregon, and Washington -- she never imagined that her book would become the international sensation that it did. She is hiking about 10 miles per day. How to say Cheryl Strayed in English? “I also think it’s very compelling that various people who knew Bob Stetson thought it was him when they read the book,” she explained. . You have to pretend to kill a horse -- instead of kill a horse -- which is incredibly challenging.”. She looked for him, along with the issue of the Hobo Times in which she might have appeared, while writing Wild, but had no luck at the time. © 2021 Condé Nast. ... places Strayed won't go in print. In reality, Cheryl also had an older sister, Karen. (In the end, he found no record of a Jerry Brown, either.) “He owned a LeBaron—it wasn’t silver, it was like a cream color,” Hopkins explained. But she's not just an author who wrote a best-selling book. It’s not even a question to me,” she said. In 1995, Cheryl Strayed was 26 years old, recently divorced, grieving the death of her mother—and about to embark on an adventure that would change her life forever. Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. Does Cheryl only have one brother, Leif? Many of the toughest parts of Strayed’s book are part of Wild on-screen, but I was tickled to see that the unexpected, sweet exchange with the Hobo Times reporter made the cut in the film as well. The drug use is pretty accurate. “He never used his real name, so when I read [in Wild] that it said ‘Jimmy Carter,’ I was totally laughing —he had so many nicknames!” Fellows said. The 'Wild' Story Of Cheryl Strayed And Her Long-Lost Half-Sister Strayed's half-sister checked Wild out of the public library because she thought it looked like an interesting travel book. Her name was Cheryl Strayed. Cheryl Strayed's Facebook author page. “Because I kept having to say, ‘I’m not really a hobo,’ I think he believed me that I was hiking the P.C.T.”. “You can really kill a horse in literature,” author Cheryl Strayed said when asked about the differences between her best-selling book, “Wild,” and the highly-anticipated (and Oscar-buzzed-about) film, starring Reese Witherspoon. “You felt what it felt like inside my body while this was happening -- on that freezing cold day in this pasture in Northern Minnesota, the day after Christmas with my brother, and this horse that we had loved all of our lives.”. Cheryl Strayed is a Yellow Blazer! “It’s not a documentary. In the film, Cheryl has only one sibling, her younger brother Leif. Overall, she feels most intensely how true the film is to her book and her life. Strayed, Hornby and Vallée (“Dallas Buyers Club”) worked closely together throughout the entire process. Many of the Hobo Times writers penned articles under pseudonyms (some examples: ‘No Bail’ John, Guitar Whitey, Fatcar Frank, Connecticut Shorty)—better known as “road names,” “road flags,” or “road monikers”—which meant Jerry Brown could’ve been the reporter’s real name, road name, or a spur-of-the-moment improvisation. “I think authors are terrible adaptors of their books.”, But Strayed, who was already a fan of Hornby’s work, holds no grudge. The magazine—known as “America’s Journal of Wanderlust”—was published about six times a year from 1987 through early 2000, as a supplement with a membership to the National Hobo Association. I was the youngest of 13, and I think by the time I came along, my mother was tired of arguing about using my father’s mother’s name, and I inherited it. And I have to live with this,” Strayed said. The day of her funeral was breezy and sunny. “The floppy brown hair. My Dad came from Germany, and he called me Gairtrude. And how would Stetson have felt about his portrayal in Wild? Back in 2012—when Strayed’s memoir was first released—her sister’s friend reached out, saying, “You’re never gonna believe this, there’s this book called Wild and your dad is in it!” Fellows and her siblings thought the description was spot on—she even posted an excerpt to Facebook at the time, which garnered a strong reaction from friends and family. Edwidge Danticat’s “Brother, I’m Dying” and Cheryl Strayed’s “The Love of My Life” share some similarities and differences in their content. In life, Strayed grew up with a single mother and two siblings before her mother eventually remarried her stepdad -- who had a prominent role in her life and in the book. Cheryl Strayed’s essay about her mother’s death [“The Love of My Life,” September 2002] reminded me of the death of my beloved grandmother in the midseventies. "I gave real notes. Today is National Voter Registration Day! In Wild, she describes her journey from despair to transcendence with honesty, humor, and heart-cracking poignancy. Cheryl Strayed: You need to tell your brother-in-law that he’s no longer allowed to touch you, sit next to you or make comments about your appearance. “The Jack Nicholson comparison really strikes a chord with me,” Strayed responded. Author Cheryl Strayed After her mother died suddenly from lung cancer when Strayed was 22, she and her brother were forced to shoot their mother’s horse when the animal became too sick to live. Writer Cheryl Strayed's best-selling 2012 memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail has been turned into a major motion picture … So we sat down with Cheryl Strayed to talk about all the juicy bits that aren't in the book, from the joyful and the surprising to the bittersweet. Powerful passages, like the killing of the horse, take on a smaller life on screen, while others, like the ending, are adjusted slightly. “He was such an adventurer and outdoorsman, and even far before he got cancer, he just really lived life to the fullest and he didn’t wait until he got sick to start living like that—he always lived like that.”. But she also realized right away that changes would have to be made on the road from page to screen and she wanted Vallée to make this his own movie. Cheryl does have a brother named Leif, but she also has an older sister, Karen, who is absent from the movie. Cheryl Strayed and Joshua (one of the … Pronunciation of Cheryl Strayed with 1 audio pronunciation, 11 translations and more for Cheryl Strayed. Cheryl's upcoming appearances, talks & classes. A short scene in Wild, in which Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) ... and clothes—that belonged to his brother-in-law, Bob “Itchy Foot” Stetson. “My dad would’ve loved the book,” said Fellows. . I think it’s him! The collaboration did not stop there. “I cried on my way to work this morning," she wrote. he did travel around and he did pick up a lot of hitchhikers.”. Jun 1, 2012 - In 1995, Cheryl Strayed was 26 years old, recently divorced, grieving the death of her mother, and about to embark on an adventure that would change her life forever. . members. But last week I decided to read Cheryl Strayed’s Wild. I miss them every day. It detailed her journey of self-discovery as she took a 1,100 mile solo-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995, starting in the Mojave Desert in … Having lost my father to cancer when I was 23, the story of Strayed’s hike along the Pacific Crest Trail, in the wake of her own mother’s death, moved me. Pictures: courtesy of Cheryl Strayed A home of our own I was born in Pennsylvania, in the USA, in 1968, in a town called Spangler. What we talk about first, however, is how to kill a horse. By Cheryl Strayed (as told to Leigh Newman) This story of adventure, loss and personal growth is one of those books that readers can't get enough of—literally. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, thenView saved stories. “More often, while I’m watching the movie I want to stand up and go, ‘This is exactly how it happened!’”. Lucky for me, the founder of the N.H.A. “And I remember when my niece first read the book she called and said, ‘Oh my God, Uncle Bobb, there’s a piece in here about the Hobo Times and that may be my dad.’ . In both the film and the book, the reporter wrote down Strayed’s first and last name, snapped a photo of her, gave her a hobo care package containing beer, an individually packaged cigarette, canned beans, and various other items, and told her to “look for his piece . My dad deserves to be talked about . Both stories are spoken in first person so the reader can hear directly from the author’s point of view. He lived in California . But these types of changes are par for the course when it comes to condensing a 336-page book into a 119-minute film -- and Strayed knows that. It is something that haunts her through much of the book “Wild." “I never did have sex with two guys in an alley,” Strayed said, laughing. Some of the changes in the film rely on cinematic shorthand that had to be employed in order to get the main parts of Strayed’s story onto the screen. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories. It's a memoir, her real life story -- the heroin, the sex, the hiking of the Pacific Crest Trail. It started out simple, as these things often do. Cheryl Strayed near the PCT in Old Station, California, July 1995. Wild: Lessons from Cheryl Strayed’s Memoir Wild is the 2012 memoir of the American author Cheryl Strayed. Cheryl Strayed 19 February 2015 • 11:20am Cheryl Strayed on the grief that sent her on a 1,100-mile quest for self-discovery M y solo three-month hike on the Pacific Crest Trail had many beginnings. “If you were to ask [director] Jean-Marc Vallée, he would tell you that scene was the hardest part of the movie to shoot,” she said. A short scene in Wild, in which Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) encounters a reporter who says he is from something called the Hobo Times, had grabbed my interest. He directed my mom’s film.” Strayed said she laughed and quickly corrected her: “No … it’s Jean-Marc’s film!”), Director Jean-Marc Vallée during the filming of "Wild.". Wild was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0. Every time I see it, I get chills.”. Cheryl Strayed is an American memoirist, novelist, essayist and podcast host. Browse photos from the Wild author's life and journey to self-discovery. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. It’s the only moment in the movie that pushes her comfort zone, she said. My original name is Gertrude.
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