Tales From the Quip

Related Content

• Stranger Than Fiction
  September 22, 2011
• Best films of 2011
  December 29, 2011
• Bourdain's No Reservations is Back Tonight: Five Places We'd Like to See Tony Visit
  April 9, 2012
• Sander Kleinenberg at LIV November 18
  November 17, 2011
• Anthony Bourdain No Reservations in Portugal: Tony Needs to Meet Cannibals
  May 1, 2012

More About

• Sloane Crosley
• Nora Ephron
• Lisbon
• Wildlife
• Romantic Comedies

Like this Story?

Sign up for the Events Newsletter: What's happening in town? From underground club nights to the biggest outdoor festivals, our top picks for the week's best events will always keep you in on the action.

Privacy Policy Cancel Continue

Sloane Crosley wrote the cover story for the worst-selling issue of Maximin its history. And anyone who fails at that lad rag scores with us. A former book publicist, the essayist and humorist has been called a modern-day Dorothy Parker by writer Jonathan Ames for quips such as “Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.” That's from I Was Told There'd Be Cake, Crosley's first book of essays. This wry, self-deprecating look at a woman's quarter-life crisis is rumored to be in development as an HBO pilot. But lest you think the 32-year-old is just some budding Nora Ephron with a rom-com ax to grind, consider her latest, How Did You Get This Number. The sophomore collection includes tales of bear cub executions, Bowery brothels, and hard-drinking clowns in Lisbon. The New York Timesbest-selling author will read from her latest at Books & Books this Thursday.
Thu., May 5, 8 p.m., 2011