News about Cheryl Strayed

People often guess which actor they'd like to see in a film or TV show about their lives, but author Cheryl Strayed is the only one to have this happen twice. Reese Witherspoon leads her as she attempts to hike the Pacific Coast Trail alone in the 2014 film "Wild," based on her best-selling memoir. And in Hulu's latest film "Tiny Beautiful Things," based on Strayed's best-selling book of advice columns, Kathryn Hahn and Sarah Pidgeon team up to play a fictionalized version of Strayed named Clare. They were also produced by Witherspoon, which is something that links "Wild" and "Tiny Beautiful Things." "Wild" came from Witherspoon's old film company, Type A Films, while "Tiny Beautiful Things" is one of many of her Hello Sunshine productions. Strayed praises Witherspoon for one of "the women in Hollywood who have blazed a trail," when chatting with POPSUGAR.

In "Tiny Beautiful Things" in Hulu, Kathryn Hahn portrays a bloated writer whose life is a blurry mess. Clare's marriage is in the dumps after her husband kicks her out of their house, her teenage daughter screams at her, and her once-promising writing career is now nonexistent, but she hopes to change it around when she unexpectedly land a career as an advice columnist. Despite Hahn's assertion that she has no interest in being anyone's voice of reason, Clare Hahn takes over an advice column called Dear Sugar, which whisks her on a self-reflective journey from childhood to present day, requiring her to reckon with some of her unhealed wounds as she continues to rewrite her life story.

On Saturday, author Chelsea Banning held a book signing at Pretty Good Books in Ashtabula, Ohio, to advertise her debut book, 'Of Crowns and Legends.' After nearly 40 people registered to the event but only two people turned up, she revealed her dissatisfaction on Twitter the next day. Banning confessed to being "kind of distraught" and a "little embarrassed," causing other writers to rant about their own ostensible failures. Atwood, a writer of more than fifty books, including 'The Handmaid's Tale,' recalled how she once held a book signing at which no one appeared. King, another well-selling author, told a similar tale about his first signing for his second book, 'Salem's Lot,' in 1975.' Jodi Picoult, Neil Gaiman, Robin Hobb, Cheryl Strayed, Min Jin Lee, and Jonathan Coe were among the renowned writers who came out to Banning.