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Episode 570: Sloane Crosley

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Episode 570: Sloane Crosley

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2024/02/28
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2024/02/28
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Sloane Crosley is the author of I Was Told There’d Be Cake and several other books. Her new memoir is Grief Is for People. “You take a little sliver of yourself and you offer it up to be spun around in perpetuity in the public imagination. That is the sacr...

Highlights

In this episode, Sloane Crosley reflects on the profound, disorienting experience of grief following the suicide of her closest friend and longtime publishing collaborator, Russell Perreault—interwoven with the jarring violation of a home burglary.
08:28
Grief doesn’t require familial proximity to be valid
22:24
The title 'Grief Is for People' originated from the irony of experiencing burglary and Russell's death simultaneously
27:35
Memoir writing is the opposite of catharsis, but it's worth it for the book
35:12
Russell dedicated his life to behind-the-scenes work in the book industry and had wide-reaching influence on published books
45:56
Sloane Crosley says she likely won't write about grief like this again and may return to fiction
49:10
Poets, lyricists, and those who write lyrically may always notice beauty and not atrophy in their ability to observe
56:38
Sloane Crosley's memoir 'Grief is for People' is more personally revealing than her previous essay collections

Chapters

Grief Is for People (MCD • 2024)
00:00
Heartburn (Nora Ephron • Vintage • 1996)
14:00
"Patchett: In Bad Relationships, 'There Comes A Day When You Gotta Go.'" (Fresh Air with Terry Gross • WHYY • Jan 2014)
25:00
Obituary: Russell Perreault, V-P at Vintage Anchor, 52 (Rachel Deahl • Publishers Weekly • Jul 2019)
32:00
The Clasp (Picador • 2016)
37:00
How Did You Get This Number (Riverhead Books • 2011)
49:00
Five O’Clock Somewhere (Gary Indiana • Granta • Feb 2024)
51:00

Transcript

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