The conference, which is built around the idea that “stories can change our worlds,” drew a stellar list of storytellers, among them literary journalist Jon Mooallem, Decemberists songwriter Colin Meloy, nonfiction author and novelist Carolyn Paul, illustrator Carson Ellis, documentary filmmaker Brian Lindstrom and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jacqui Banaszynski. (Is that a cool location for a narrative gathering, or what? I wish I could have gone.) Todd Williamson/Invision for Fox Searchlight/APĪ few weekends ago, she spoke at the annual Power of Storytelling conference in Bucharest, Romania. It then became a boffo movie, with a screenplay by the always-amazing Nick Hornby and an Oscar-nominated performance by actress Reese Witherspoon.Īctress Reese Witherspoon and Cheryl Strayed at the 2015 Golden Globes. Cheryl Strayed speaks at the Power of Storytelling conference in Bucharest, Romania, this month.Ĭheryl Strayed has pretty much won the writers’ lottery: Her memoir “Wild” was a boffo bestseller, picked for Oprah’s book club and translated into dozens of languages.
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