It was like, ‘But that whole paragraph would be better there!’ “That’s the book writer in me. “It was, like all of the processes of writing, a painful thing. “It was really important that the columns you hear in the show at least sound like the columns I wrote,” Strayed tells The Daily Beast’s Obsessed over Zoom. The story of Clare (played by Kathryn Hahn and, in flashbacks, Sarah Pidgeon) echoes some of Strayed’s past-her mother’s passing, getting married young, struggles with her father-but still strays away at some points to form a new character.Īlong with diving deep into some old wounds in her life, Strayed encountered another tricky dilemma while working on the show: How do you turn a book of over 50 sprawling advice columns into a limited series of just eight episodes? While the book has a steady influx of non-fiction essays guiding readers through life, the show shines a light on portions of Strayed’s own life. The writing Strayed and I are talking about is Tiny Beautiful Things, a Hulu series adaptation of her 2012 collection of pieces from her “Dear Sugar” column in The Rumpus Strayed served as a writer and executive producer.
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