SLOANE CROSLEY at the Sorrento Hotel |
For what should be a lovely, amusing, and most sociable time, we repair up to the Penthouse at the Sorrento Hotel—which has of late become the site of numerous book-related activities, from having books available for room service to the Night School dinner discussions with authors to Christopher Frizzelle/The Stranger's hosted, 'silent' reading together evenings. We're delighted to be presenting Sloane Crosley, one of the most attuned essayists of her generation. Her debut, I Was Told There'd Be Cake was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and was both a critical, and word-of-mouth favorite. Tonight, it's her newest collection, How Did You Get This Number? (Riverhead). "A worthy successor to Crosley's well-received debut. Where her first collection focused on a young professional's life in Manhattan, this follow-up finds the author—whose day job as a book publicist is rarely mentioned—taking her show on the road. She gets lost in Lisbon (actually, she gets lost pretty much everywhere), threatened by a bear in Alaska, and all but deported from France—or at least discouraged from ever again visiting Notre Dame. Most of the book is funny, some of it even laugh-out-loud, but her literary gifts go well beyond easy laughs ... Perhaps the finest essay is the final one ... Initially about wanting what you can't afford, it transforms into an exploration of receiving what you want that you can't afford ... Ultimately, though, it becomes a meditation on a romance that forces Crosley to come to terms with a truth she'd suspect and the lie she was living. It's the least humorous of the collection, but the most unflinchingly true." - Kirkus Reviews. Free admission. Refreshments will be available for purchase. The Sorrento Hotel is at 900 Madison Street.
- Street:
- The Sorrento Hotel
- Additional:
- 900 Madison St
- City:
- Seattle ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98104
- Country:
- United States
