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In Cake readers were introduced to the foibles of Crosley's life in New York City - always teetering between the glamour of Manhattan parties, the indignity of entry-level work, and the special joy of suburban nostalgia - and to a literary voice that mixed Dorothy Parker with David Sedaris and became something all its own.

How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley: Book summary 2010

Crosley's subjects -- international travel, childhood troubles, the search for an apartment -- sometimes seem the offshoots of an intensive mining of her pre-bestseller life.

Book Review Roundup 2010

Wooded rolling hills make up about 80 percent of Crosley's 2,460 acres, which also feature 13 ponds and seven miles of the Muscatatuck River.

100 Best Public-Land Hunts: Indiana 2007

Crosley's book ain't half bad, but plenty of books as good — and some better — never see the light of day.

Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too 2008

Crosley's tales are honest and casual; they read like a wall posts on Facebook or a very long voice-mail message on a best friend's cell.

Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too 2008

Crosley's writers 'group, who listened regularly to these pages over eight years and made many fine suggestions.

The Cat From Hue: A Vietnam War Story 2002

Sloane Crosley's collection of humor essays, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, was published in 2008 and became a New York Times bestseller.

Blisstree 2010

Crosley's essays, satire, interviews, fiction and criticism have appeared in The New York

Blisstree 2010

Crosley's essays, satire, interviews, fiction and criticism have appeared in The New York

Blisstree 2010

Crosley's first piece of confessional writing sprang from an email she sent to a group of friends recounting an incident where she got locked out of the same apartment twice in the same day - the email found its way to an editor at the

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