How Did You Get This Number: Essays
Sloane CrosleyCrosley still lives & works in New York City, but she's no longer the newcomer for whom a trip beyond the Upper West Side is a big adventure. She can pack up her sensibility & takes us with her to Paris, to Portugal (having picked it by spinning a globe & putting down her finger, & finally falling in with a group of Portuguese clowns), & even to Alaska, where the "bear bells" on her fellow bridesmaids' ponytails seemed silly until a grizzly cub dramatically intrudes.
Meanwhile, back in New York, where new apartments beckon & taxi rides go awry, her sense of the city has become more layered, her relationships with friends and family more complicated. As always, Crosley's voice is fueled by the perfect witticism, buoyant optimism, flair for drama, & easy charm in the face of minor suffering or potential drudgery. But in How Did You Get This Number it has also become increasingly sophisticated, quicker & sharper to the point, more complex & lasting in the emotions it explores. And yet, Crosley remains the unfailingly hilarious young Everywoman, healthily equipped with intelligence & poise to fend off any potential mundanity in maturity.