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TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS[qh]
《美麗小東西》[qh]
When an anonymous advice columnist by the name of “Dear Sugar” introduced herself on The Rumpus on March 11, 2010, she made her proposition clear: a “by-the-book common sense of Dear Abby and the earnest spiritual cheesiness of Cary Tennis and the butt-pluggy irreverence of Dan Savage and the closeted Upper East Side nymphomania of Miss Manners.” But in the two-some years that followed, she proceeded to deliver something tenfold punchier, more honest, more existentially profound than even such an intelligently irreverent promise could foretell. Collected in Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar (public library), one of the best psychology and philosophy books of 2012, is her no-bullshit, wholehearted wisdom on life’s trickiest contexts — sometimes the simplest, sometimes the most complex, always the most deeply human — published under Sugar’s long-awaited real name.[qh]
2010年3月11日當一位匿名答疑專欄作家以“Dear Sugar”的名號出現在“The Rumpus”上時，她就提出了自己的主張：有著“Dear Abby循規蹈矩的認知，Cary Tennis真摯的高尚的粗鄙和Dan Savage對同性戀的無所謂態度，以及Miss Manners私下談到的上東區女性色情狂風氣。”而在之后的兩年多時間內，她繼續發布了一些內容，其風格的強烈、內容的真實和存在深遠更十倍于之前的那 則文筆狡黠不敬的發言。《美麗小東西：Dear Sugar對愛與人生的建議》是2012年最佳心理和哲學書籍之一，收錄其中的內容是她對人生微妙情境的不憤世、全心全意的智慧解讀——這些情境有時很簡單，有時很復雜，但總是與最深處的人性相關——并且以大家長久期待的Sugar的真名發表。[qh]
