My review of the latest Creative Nonfiction is at New Pages: “Don’t write like a girl. Don’t write like a boy. Write like a mother#^@%*&,” the Rumpus columnist "Sugar” advised young writer Elissa Bassist in 2010. Bassist took the advice to heart, making it into an “anthem and a lifestyle” that is about “quitting your bitching, getting out of your own ego, and getting to work.” Three years later, she and “Sugar”—now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things, extend the discussion in an email conversation that appropriately kicks off this powerful collection of work by women writers."
