
In 2011 Crosley appeared on the TV series Gossip Girl as herself. Ĭrosley is co-chair of The New York Public Library's Young Lions Committee and serves on the board of Housingworks Bookstore. She co-wrote the song "It Only Gets Much Worse" with Nate Ruess. She has also written cover stories and features for Salon, Spin, Vogue, Esquire, Playboy, W Magazine, and AFAR. She is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and was the founding columnist for The New York Times "Townies" op-ed series, a columnist for The New York Observer Diary, a columnist for The Village Voice, a contributing editor at BlackBook Magazine and is a regular contributor to The New York Times, GQ, Elle, and NPR. She was a weekly columnist for British newspaper The Independent in 2011. Ĭrosley has published work in or edited for various magazines and newspapers. In addition to her own books, Crosley edited The Best American Travel Writing in 2011. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published Cult Classic by Crosley in 2022. Her third book of essays Look Alive Out There was also a Thurber Prize finalist. Farrar, Straus and Giroux released her debut novel The Clasp in October 2015 it was optioned by Universal Pictures in 2016. Crosley's second collection of essays, the 2010 book How Did You Get This Number, also became a New York Times bestseller. It was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, one of Amazon's best books of the year, and optioned by HBO.



The book became a New York Times bestseller.

Riverhead Books published Crosley's first collection of essays I Was Told There'd Be Cake on April 1, 2008. She graduated from Connecticut College in 2000. She has also worked as a publicist at the Vintage Books division of Random House and as an adjunct professor in Columbia University's Master of Fine Arts program. Sloane Crosley (born August 3, 1979) is an American writer living in New York City known for her humorous essays, including the collections I Was Told There'd Be Cake, How Did You Get This Number, and Look Alive Out There.
