

Her new novel is called Cult Classic.Dante Gabriel Rossetti, How They Met Themselves, watercolor, 1864Ī doppelgänger ( / ˈ d ɒ p əl ɡ ɛ ŋ ər, - ɡ æ ŋ ər/), sometimes spelled as doppelgaenger or doppelganger is a biologically unrelated look-alike, or a double, of a living person. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, she lives in Manhattan.

Sloane Crosley is the author of the novel The Clasp and the essay collections Look Alive Out There and the New York Times bestsellers I Was Told There’d Be Cake (a Thurber Prize finalist) and How Did You Get This Number.

Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk.Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker.The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford That is the editorial version of the experience of reading old text messages, which I’m happy to say I don’t do. And you’re thinking, didn’t you hear what I said? I’ve repeated myself so many times. And then by page 50 you’re almost angry, as if they are in the room and have been listening to you. Esther Perel I am not, so maybe people are thinking about this, but yeah, in defense of single and formerly single New York ladies, we’re really working with what we’ve got and we’re really trying very hard.Īnd so the first couple of times you think, oh no, I meant it, that’s fine. We have so much choice and we have so much stimuli, and therefore we short circuit ourselves out of having a normal life. So I feel like the idea of New York City women not understanding realism, I understand why people think that not about just New York but urban areas in general. A lot of people almost got pissed on today. I mean, I almost got pissed on in the subway today at West 4th. You get up and you get out of bed and the city is like, alright, this is cute, let’s see if you can handle this.

I’m laughing because of the amount of realism that is steadily thrown into your face every day living in the city, in arenas that extend far beyond romance. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts. This week on The Maris Review, Sloane Crosley joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her new novel, Cult Classic, out now from MCD.
