Have 24 Gallons of Water—Will Hike

Cheryl Strayed and Meghan Daum On Redemption, Memoirs, and Going Wild

“I love redemption,” said Cheryl Strayed, author of the memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. “But I hate redemption tales that pretend that redemption is this tidy thing.”

In a conversation with Los Angeles Times columnist and fellow memoirist Meghan Daum at MOCA Grand Avenue, Strayed discussed the perils and pleasures of writing about personal history–history like her solo journey into the wilderness at age 26, in the summer of 1995.

“I always say that memoir is not the art form of what happened but rather how …

Far From the Madding In-N-Out Burger

Where Can One Find Solitude?

 

For most people, seclusion has never been easy to find, but today it may be harder than ever. Empty places are few, and communication devices keep us perpetually on call. …