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Sloane Crosley is the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collections, I Was Told There'd Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number, as well as Look Alive Out There and the bestselling novel, The Clasp. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, New Yorker, Esquire, Vogue, New York Times Magazine, New York Times Book Review, New York Magazine and on NPR. She was the inaugural columnist for the New York Times op-ed Townies series, a contributing editor at Interview Magazine and Vanity Fair and a columnist for the Village Voice and New York Observer. She also created sadstuffonthestreet.com. She lives in Manhattan.
Cult Classic makes an uproarious time of romantic carnage. Crosley captures the brutal mirror of past love, the slow creep of ambivalence into dread, and the sense that a detour can easily become a life -- Raven Leilani, author of LUSTER Cult Classic is aimed with deadly accuracy at those unfortunate enough to have dated only during the twenty-first century. It's witty?of course, because Sloane Crosley wrote it?and razor sharp, and very clever, ditto, but it's more romantic and redemptive than one had any right to expect. It also contains one-liners destined to appear on T-shirts and coffee mugs. It's so good. I couldn't stop reading it -- Nick Hornby I love a secret society, and I love a wry narrator alive to the mysteries and absurdities of the world. Cult Classic has both, taking us on a journey that, even as it unspools into comic mayhem, only becomes more real. Here is a book that is unbelievably smart on modern love and startup mystics alike, and a Manhattan that feels accurate down to the molecule. Sloane Crosley can do it all -- Robin Sloan, author of MR PENUMBRA'S 24-HOUR BOOKSTORE The witty, improbably propulsive rom-com you didn't know you were waiting for - and just the sparkling, slightly sinister love letter to New York City that New York City deserves. An effervescent delight -- Elif Batuman, author of THE IDIOT Did the comic romantic thriller exist before Sloane Crosley, or has she invented it? Either way, Cult Classic is a classic. Funny, suspenseful, unputdownable, here is one of America's wittiest writers at her best. A pleasure on every page -- Andrew Sean Greer, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning LESS
