“Lying to make life bearable”: Cheryl Strayed interviews memoirist Rob Roberge

I became fast friends with Rob Roberge in 2008, when we were both on the faculty at Antioch University’s low-residency MFA program in creative writing in Los Angeles. His kindness was matched only by the intensity of his intelligence. The students he mentored all raved about his exceptional talents at both nurturing and schooling them. Not long after meeting him I read the first of his books with a feeling that was equal parts curiosity and dread; one always hopes to love the books written