Look Alive Out There: Essays

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Product Description Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, Buzzfeed, Elle, Cosmopolitan, The Millions, InStyle, Bustle, BookRiot, and Southern LivingSloane Crosley returns to the form that made her a household name in really quite a lot of households: Essays!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. The characteristic heart and punch-packing observations are back, but with a newfound coat of maturity. A thin coat. More of a blazer, really.Fans 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. 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. And as her subjects become more serious, her essays deliver not just laughs but lasting emotional heft and insight. Crosley has taken up the gauntlets thrown by her predecessors―Dorothy Parker, Nora Ephron, David Sedaris―and crafted something rare, affecting, and true.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. 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). Review A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2018A New York Public Library Best Nonfiction Book of 2018An Esquire Best Book of 2018A Real Simple Best Book of 2018A Refinery29 Best Book of 2018A Vulture Top Ten Best Comedy Book of 2018A BookRiot Best Comedy Book of 2018Semifinalist for Goodreads Best Humor Book Award"Whether she’s spying on a neighbor’s kid, crashing a shiva, or freezing her eggs, Crosley toggles effortlessly between hilarity and heartbreak." ―Glamour"Crosley wields her wit and commands all of your attention in her third collection of insightful and hilarious personal essays." ―Esquire“Crosley’s best essays combine her sparkling verbal facility with a willingness to expose and explore more personal issues...She has that rare ability to treat scrapes with sardonic humor and inject serious subjects with levity and hijinks with real feeling ― a sort of unlicensed nurse to our souls." ―NPR"Crosley’s third and brand-new essay collection Look Alive Out There surfaces the author’s trademark propensity for fish-out-of-water knee-slappers and their concurrent interrogations of belonging." ―Hazlitt“[Crosley] offers us a must-read once more.” ―Timeout"By the standards of posterity, personal essays may be the genre with the highest bar...Her third time out, after a break to write the warm and witty novel The Clasp, Crosley seems poised to make the leap...Crosley reemerges a wiser―but still often hilarious―observer of city life and human nature.” ―Vulture"The brilliant and ever-relatable Sloane Crosley... is back in this new book of hilarious and heartfelt essays... Full of humor and insight, Look Alive Out There is a must-read collection from one of the true modern masters of the form." ―Bustle"For those familiar with her work, this latest collection demonstrates the same keen appreciation of the absurd; it’s a welcome reminder that comedy can found in unlikely places (life lessons, too)." ―Omnivoracious"The essays [in Look Alive Out There] are notable not just for their ability to scrutinize a very micro or abstract aspect of life, but for being genuinely funny―not clever, not cute, not playful, funny. This combination of literariness and comedy makes Crosley one of the few living essayists to be designated as a humor writer." ―Splitsider"Are you biding your time, waiting for the next David Sedaris book to be released? No need. Sloane Crosley's