I generally have trouble with essay collections billed as humorous. Thank you to FSG and Edelweiss for an advanced copy of this book. And hers, especially the mundane-sounding ones - my favorite - are so delightful. I would rather learn by her mistakes than by mine. Every story is an adventure, inward and outward, and I feel like I learned so much, not just factually about, say, harvesting your eggs or solutions to annoying backyard teenagers, but a new way to respond to life situations. It doesn't matter where she is or what she's doing, whether it's annoying backyard neighbors, egg harvesting (the female type), or climbing up Mount Cotapaxi, she's such a compelling voice that I forgot whatever it was I didn't like about my own life at the moment and went along for the ride in her head. It's like that friend you had in high school who leaned over to your desk and said something that was so funny and smart that you had to do everything you could to suppress your laughter until class was over. You know how some people just have a way with words that makes you remember the witty turn, the sarcastic description, the funny phrase that lifts up the conversation? This whole book is like that. This is such a book to help me survive my always-dreaded Christmas holiday season. Sometimes you get to read the perfect book for the exact moment. And yet she's still very much herself, and it's great to have her back―and not a moment too soon (or late, for that matter). Look Alive Out There arrives on the tenth anniversary of I Was Told There'd be Cake, and Crosley's essays have managed to grow simultaneously more sophisticated and even funnier. Crosley has taken up the gauntlets thrown by her predecessors―Dorothy Parker, Nora Ephron, David Sedaris―and crafted something rare, affecting, and true. And as her subjects become more serious, her essays deliver not just laughs but lasting emotional heft and insight. In Look Alive Out There, whether it's scaling active volcanoes, crashing shivas, playing herself on Gossip Girl, befriending swingers, or staring down the barrel of the fertility gun, Crosley continues to rise to the occasion with unmatchable nerve and electric one-liners. More of a blazer, really.įans of I Was Told There'd Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number know Sloane Crosley's life as a series of relatable but madcap misadventures.

The characteristic heart and punch-packing observations are back, but with a newfound coat of maturity. From the New York Times-bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There―a brand-new collection of essays filled with her trademark hilarity, wit, and charm.

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