num_pages: 256
description: From the New York Times-bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out Therea 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 predecessorsDorothy Parker Nora Ephron David Sedarisand 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 backand not a moment too soon (or late for that matter).
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title: Look Alive Out There
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux