Sloane Crosley | The New York Observer

National Book Awards Tries to Glam Things Up; Who Invited All the Fancy People, Publishing Peons Wonder?

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:27:52 -0500

At around 1 o'clock Thursday morning, Morgan Entrekin decided it was time to extract himself from the dance floor at Socialista and head home. "I'm having an excellent time!" he said, half empty beer in hand. "I wish I were 20 years younger! I could dance all night."

The reason he couldn't: "I have a 3-year-old! I'm tired, man. I'm old."

Mr. Entrekin used to party. Hasn't in a while....

'See You a Million Times This Week,' Says Crosley; Publishing Types Just Happy to be Employed, Drinking

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:25:39 -0500

"What do you think? Let me know. Meanwhile...see you about a million times this week, I suppose." That's how the Vintage book publicist and essayist Sloane Crosley closed a pitch letter she sent to this reporter on Monday afternoon. Really, what is it with this week? The National Book Awards suddenly make everyone want to go out? Or is it maybe just this whole autumn? That Bolano book launch should have been...

Bringing Back Gatsby: Brooke Geahan's Accompanied Literary Society Parties Like It's 1929

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:31:44 -0400

Brooke Geahan, the 20-something founder of the Accompanied Literary Society, has made a career of throwing scruffy readers and writers together with scenesters and socialites, and using the dim light of glamorous venues to make them look significantly more attractive than they might elsewhere. She was up to her old tricks on Wednesday, Sept. 25, when the Accompanied Literary Society threw a party in conjunction with Diesel, in the penthouse of a new luxury...

Sloane Crosley's Book Gets HBO Treatment

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:56:11 -0400

TV rights for I Was Told There'd Be Cake, the best-selling essay collection by Vintage publicist Sloane Crosley, have been sold to HBO for series development. This according to an announcement posted on the Publisher's Marketplace bulletin board over the weekend.

That's all we know for now, except that CAA did the deal. Watch this space for an explanation from Ms. Crosley herself; we will update when she returns our call. ...

When Will Sloane Crosley Quit Her Job?

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:22:11 -0400

Sloane Crosley used to be a book publicist at Vintage. She still is one, actually, though the longer her collection of essays, published in April by Riverhead as I Was Told There’d Be Cake, remains on The New York Times best-seller list, the weirder that fact becomes. Shouldn’t she quit pretty soon? Isn’t that what happens now?

Sure, the advance she got from Riverhead was a mere good-not-great sum in the...

Adorably Ageist Flack Vaults Generation Gap

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:52:07 -0400

I WAS TOLD THERE'D BE CAKE
By Sloane Crosley
Riverhead Books, 228 pages, $14

Okay, I confess. I Facebook-stalked Sloane Crosley, and she has some very cool friends, including Leon Neyfakh, who profiled her for The Observer (“The Most Popular Publicist in New York”—Nov. 27, 2007). So believe me, I was totally psyched not to like her book of personal essays, I Was Told There’d Be Cake. I’ve never had this...

Morning Memo: Owen and Kate, Moving to the City? Katie Couric Likes to Rock

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:45:35 -0400

Celebrity power lunch at Michael's! Well, sort of. In honor of April Fool's, Page Six is reporting that Michael's will have a table where celebrity impersonators of Amy Winehouse, Eliot Spitzer, Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie and baby Harlow (don't worry, it's a doll, not a hired baby look-alike) will appear to be having lunch. [P6]

For more festivities, Joey Scaggs will apparently lead his annual April Fool's parade down Fifth Avenue that will be led...

The Most Popular Publicist in New York

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:36:35 -0500

One of the first times Sloane Crosley made a real friend outside of work after she moved to New York was at a party she threw for the 20th anniversary of Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City in 2004. Ms. Crosley was 26 at the time, and she’d been working as a publicist at Vintage Books since 2002. The party was at the Odeon, and Candace Bushnell was there giving out advice.

Letters

Sun, 28 May 2006 20:00:00 -0400

Bongskull Island

To the Editor: By now you’ve probably wearied of reading messages from those waxing defensive at seeing their tastes in music/frat-boy ways mocked [“To the Guys in the Garden Apt.: I Think I Hate You,” Sloane Crosley, New Yorker’s Diary, May 22]. You’re probably also understandably surprised that so many meatheads: (1) can read and write, (2) read this column. I write to sympathize with the meatheads, with one qualification. ...

Letters

Sun, 28 May 2006 20:00:00 -0400

Bongskull Island To the Editor: By now you’ve probably wearied of reading messages from those waxing defensive at seeing their tastes in music/frat-boy ways mocked [“To the Guys in the Garden Apt.: I Think I Hate You,” Sloane Crosley, New Yorker’s Diary, May 22]. You’re probably also understandably surprised that so many meatheads: (1) can read and write, (2) read this column. I write to sympathize with the meatheads, with one qualification. Saturday night...