Sloane Crosley
Sloane Crosley
Sloane Crosleyis a writer living in New York and the author of the collections of essays, I Was Told There'd Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number. She also worked as a publicist at the Vintage Books division of Random House and as an adjunct professor in Columbia University’s Master of Fine Arts program. She graduated from Connecticut College in 2000...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth3 August 1978
CountryUnited States of America
country real cities
Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.
artist attention spotlight
Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.
narcissistic assuming habit
New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.
writing weekend vacation
I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.
jobs college accepted
I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.
people tree forests
I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.
growing-up thinking calling
I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.
jobs writing thinking
I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.
book giving people
I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered.
heart vintage people
Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.
maintenance pastries tarts
Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.
school oregon facts
I find that anything culturally significant that happened before '93 I associate with the decade before it. In fact, Oregon Trail is one of a handful of signposts that middle school existed at all.
fun wall real
I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I am not good at statistics. So I hit a real wall with archaeology. It's probably like wanting to be an architect - you think it's all fun and games, and then you have to get out a calculator and you're done.
school eye artist
I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from him, something about his favorite walk being the one he took around his own bedroom. He said that he never understood the need for people to travel because all the poetry and perspective you're ever going to get you already posses. Anais Nin had the same idea. We see the world as we are. So if it's the same brain we bring with us every time we open our eyes, what's the difference if we're looking at an island cove or a pocket watch?