Look alive out there by sloane crosley5/23/2023 ![]() Getting scammed by a guy who snaps up her website’s domain name and demands thousands to give it back. Gamely attempting a challenging hike in Ecuador with inadequate clothing, dwindling water, insufficient acclimation and altitude sickness. by a neighbor who cranks his music to 11. ![]() They’re more like, “So this really weird thing happened. But unlike Sedaris’, her anecdotes do not serve as loose frameworks for rollicking comedy. Because she writes essays and is funny, she gets compared to David Sedaris. Her stories aren’t setups to punch lines, as if crafted by a standup comic. ![]() ![]() That’s approximately what it’s like to read Sloane Crosley’s “Look Alive Out There.” As in her two previous essay collections, beginning with 2008’s bestselling “I Was Told There’d Be Cake,” Crosley stuffs tales from her life with sharp observations, offbeat analogies, pop-culture wisecracks and a welcome tone of affable self-deprecation. Your friend is so funny that, even when she’s telling about bad experiences, you laugh. Driving across Nebraska, she regales you with accounts of strange, quirky or terrible things that have happened to her lately. ![]() Let’s say you and your wittiest friend, the one who lives in New York, take a road trip together. ![]()
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