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
Sloane Crosley quotes about
years calendars done
At the end of each year, I sit on the floor and go page by page through the old calendar, inking annual events into the new one, all the while watching my year in 'dinner withs' skate by. When I'm done, I save the old calendar in the box of the new one and put it with the others on a shelf.
birthday summer baby
I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.
eye grandmother loyalists
Every day of my adult life, I have worn at least one piece of jewelry from my maternal grandmother's collection, all of which were manufactured by famed Danish silversmith Georg Jensen. To the naked eye, I am either a Jensen loyalist or a grandmother loyalist. Really I am just a Pretty Things loyalist.
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.
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.
lesson-learned lessons transition
Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.
done serious should
As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.
taken yesterday quality
For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.
living-my-life notes feels
I have definitely had experiences where I can feel the shift from simply living my life to being slightly outside of my life and taking notes.
growing-up thinking calling
I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.
space long shrinking
For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of someone who has misjudged the space constraints of a postcard, the handwriting shrinking uncomfortably at the bottom.
growing-up home sleep
Like most citizens of popular and international urban centres, I don't take advantage of the cultural opportunities. Perhaps this comes from growing up in suburbia. Home is where you eat, sleep, read, watch television and ignore your parents. It is not where you go to the ballet and then attend a heated panel discussion about it afterwards.
athlete technology want
Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.
writing emotional thinking
Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.