SLOANE CROSLEY
Thursday, April 10 at 8 p.m.

While we hope Sloane Crosley doesn't quit her day job—as a superb publicist at Vintage Books in New York, someone we work frequently with—this is only our self wishing. As readers of her quicksilver-smart essay collection, I Was Told There'd Be Cake (Riverhead), will attest, she can write ... and there will be serious wanting of more. "Hilarious and affecting and only occasionally scatological, I Was Told There'd Be Cake is lively reminiscence about growing up strange. Sardonic without being cruel, tender without being sentimental, Sloane Crosley will win you over with this delightful debut." - Colson Whitehead. "Charming, elegant, wise, and comedic, these essays absolutely sparkle and entertain. Sloane Crosley is a 21st Century Dorothy Parker, and this book is a gem and heralds a wry new voice in American letters. Gorgeous writing, outrageous humor - it's all here!" - Jonathan Ames.

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