Oct 28, 2015 07:22 AM EDT
Cheryl Strayed 'Dear Sugar' Column To Become HBO Drama Series! Author Collaborates With Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern Once More

First teaming up for the 2014 movie adaptation of memoir "Wild," Cheryl Strayed, Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern are banding together once more for a new project based on another of Strayed's writings. This time, it will be for the small screen.

Deadline has word that a full-blown television series is being made out of "Tiny Beautiful Things," a collection of essays Strayed wrote for her Dear Sugar column published in literary site The Rumpus, by HBO. The self-help book was released back in 2012.

Instead of starring in the Dear Sugar adaptation, Witherspoon and Dern will serve as executive producers for the upcoming series, alongside Strayed herself and her husband, Brian Lindstrom, who will help the author write the script for the series.

The last time Strayed, Witherspoon and Dern worked together was for the passion project movie "Wild," which received rave reviews and gave the actresses leeway for Oscar nominations last year. This could be a prefiguring that the success will continue with "Tiny Beautiful Things."

The TV series is billed to "explore love, loss, lust and life through the eyes of a Portland family who live by the mantra that the truth will never kill you." The plot should be based on the countless pieces of advice on love and life made by Strayed.

One of the pieces, which was written as guidance for a "twentysomething just starting adulthood," was cited by Vulture as a favorite last year. Here is how it goes:

"One Christmas at the very beginning of your twenties when your mother gives you a warm coat that she saved for months to buy, don't look at her skeptically after she tells you she thought the coat was perfect for you.

"Don't hold it up and say it's longer than you like your coats to be and too puffy and possibly even too warm. Your mother will be dead by spring. That coat will be the last gift she gave you. You will regret the small thing you didn't say for the rest of your life. Say thank you."

Needless to say, Vanity Fair still finds the presented premise for the series lacking of clues but the publication says it gives the impression of "some kind of combination of Strayed's generous, soul-searching prose, Gilmore Girls, and Parenthood."

There remains no info as to when "Tiny Beautiful Things" hits the small screen or which stars will make up its cast.

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