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“There was so much life and story in each of these little letters that were written to me. She wrote anonymously, and the job didn’t bring her monetary gain, but sharing her personal life with the readers turned Strayed into a beloved writer. Instead of creating a different persona for her readers, she tapped into her own life to find wisdom that she could impart in her essays. When Strayed took over from Almond, she brought a new approach to writing the column. The idea of Dear Sugar was conceived by Steve Almond, who wrote advice for the readers, posing as a woman who has been through many ups and downs. Dear Sugar is a real column featured in The Rumpus, written by Cheryl Strayed from 2010 to 2012. While the Hulu series might have changed the website’s name, the advice column’s title remains the same. Is Dear Sugar a Real Advice Column? Image Credit: ELIZABETH MORRIS/HULU

Over the years, the magazine has featured writers like Roxanne Gay and Cheryl Strayed, who created a reader base for themselves through the columns on The Rumpus before they became best-selling authors. I wanted to cover all this culture that nobody’s talking about,” he added. Or there wasn’t before The Rumpus,” he said.Įlliot said he wanted to create “the magazine I want to read online,” and in The Rumpus, he made one “that plays by the rules of the Internet.” “I wanted to do a cultural magazine.

But there isn’t really a good web magazine for us. “The reality is that there’s a lot of literary writers, like me, Dan Chaon, Michelle Tea, Rick Moody.

One of his ideas constituted creating a space for writers and readers. He’d wanted to work for The Huffington Post but then decided to create his own space for the ideas. The idea to create The Rumpus came to Elliot after he’d finished writing his novel, ‘The Adderall Diaries.’ Wanting to take some time off writing, he approached Arianna Huffington about ideas that could be turned into articles. It was founded in 2009 by Stephen Elliot and is “one of the longest-running independent online literary and culture magazines.” It features book reviews, interviews with authors, essays, columns, original fiction and poetry, and two subscription-based book clubs and letter programs. Yes, The Mantros in ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’ is based on a real online magazine, The Rumpus.