From the archives: The Great Reckoning

Dear Sugars

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Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

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🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This episode was originally published on July 28th, 2018.

Special guests Mitchell S. Jackson and Rebecca Skloot share the stage with the Sugars to tell stories of personal reckoning and answer letters from the audience. To some extent, every letter the Sugars receive is a kind of reckoning, as it’s often the letter writer’s first attempt at taking account of their mistakes and delusions. In this episode, the Sugars take a long hard look at transgressions of love, friendship, the self and so much more.

Mitchell S. Jackson is the author of “The Residue Years,” which won the Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. He is the winner of a Whiting Award, and his honors include fellowships from Ted, the Lannan Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation. His book, "Survival Math," was released in 2019.

Rebecca Skloot is the author of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” which was made into an Emmy-nominated HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne. Her award-winning science writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; and many other publications.

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0:00.0	W-B-U-R Podcasts, Boston. The
0:15.0	universe has good news for the lost, lonely and heart sick.
0:22.0	The sugars are here speaking straight into your ears.
0:26.0	I'm Steve Aul Strade. This is dear sugars.
0:31.0	Oh dear someone, won't you please?
0:39.0	Share some bit of sweetness with me.
0:42.0	Share some bit of sweetness with me.
0:46.8	I checked my mailbox every day
1:14.3	for. day for a bit of sugar that you'll send my way. Hi Cheryl, Hi Steve, Hi Portland, Oregon.
1:15.9	High Revolution.
1:19.9	High Revolution Hall and hello, Wonderly and hello everyone here.
1:25.0	Thanks for joining us tonight for our Dear Sugar Summer Party.
1:28.0	So you thought that you were here to have fun.
1:38.0	You know, we like to kind of keep things sort of surprising.
1:41.0	And hostile.
1:42.0	And hostile. So our theme today is the great reckoning the great light-hearted So what is reckoning to you Steve?
1:54.0	Well, reckoning is taking account.
1:58.0	Reckoning is that long difficult stare back at your mistakes, your transgressions, your delusions, and sometimes
2:06.7	your dark teachers, as you would say.
2:09.2	Yeah.
2:10.2	Wild is, the whole book is a reckoning I think and in fact when I decided to take the hike on the Pacific Christ
2:18.1	Trail I don't know if any of you guys are aware that I did that. But what happened...
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