Look Alive Out There: Essays by Sloane Crosley

When Crosley published Look Alive Out There in April, accompanied by a blurb from Steve Martin, readers were delighted. In a starred review in Booklist, one wrote, “Laugh-out-loud funny seems too trite a phrase for a writer whose takes are so addictively original and unexpected, but it’s also true: dear readers, you will laugh.” But it’s not a shallow kind of laughter: Crosley provides depth and social commentary that give her essays resonance. As Amazon Editor Erin Kodicek wrote, “Like a friend, Crosley is not afraid to veer into vulnerable territory, which reveals the growth of a writer who first displayed her sardonic wit and keen appreciation of the absurd in I Was Told There’d Be Cake. It’s as good a time as any to be reminded that life is full of good humor, but only a select few do that as well as Sloane Crosley.”