Whether she’s being terrorized by a borderline feral teenage neighbor in Manhattan or tracking down the British grifter who is holding her digital identity hostage grappling with an odd illness, interviewing her long-lost ‘70s porn star uncle, or crashing a shiva, the world provides Sloane with rich material, even from the most unlikely places. But a decade later, she’s taken her Crosley-specific combination of dubiousness and wonder and applied it to the weightier aspects of all our lives (though never at the sacrifice of the funny). Crosley continues to respond to life’s everyday absurdities, and poignant moments too, with laugh-out- loud one-liners and the kind of incisive prose that makes us feel as if we’re sitting with our most tell-it- to-me- like-it- is friend. She is by turns charming, deadpan, hilarious, and wise-her writing has always been a tonic in a world gone nuts. Look Alive Out There is a collection of sixteen new essays, each one brimming with Crosley’s trademark wit and observation. Exactly ten years after her debut essay collection, I Was Told There’d Be Cake, introduced a strikingly original, genre-resuscitating voice to the world, the bestselling author Sloane Crosley returns to the personal essay right when we need her most.
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