Sloane Crosley

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Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2008

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Sloane Crosley is author of the humorous essay collection "I Was Told There'd Be Cake." It recently debuted on the New York Times bestseller list.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sean from Phoenix, Arizona. The Sound of Young America is an independent production
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0:08.9	visit MaximumFun.org and click on donate. Live on tape from my house in Los Angeles,
0:14.3	I'm Jesse Thorn and this is the Sound of Young America from MaximumFun.org.
0:30.0	It's the Sound of Young America. I'm Jesse Thorn, America's radio sweet heart. My guest on
0:44.7	the program is author Sloan Crosley. Her new book of memoir and essays is called, I was told
0:52.0	there'd be cakes. So long, welcome to the Sound of Young America. Well, thank you for having me.
0:55.9	It is a pleasure indeed to have you on the program. I recently wrote something for something
1:03.2	that was in a similar, yeah, well, I mean, you know, it doesn't matter. It was like, but it was
1:08.0	a similar sort of personal reminiscence type of essay. And the thing that struck me the most
1:13.8	about the process of writing that piece was that I really don't remember anything that has happened
1:19.6	in my life ever. Are you possessed of a mind that can recall the details of things that happened
1:26.3	to you in the past? I, um, yes. I mean, I do think that maybe you should seek some sort of
1:33.8	attention if you can't remember anything. I was, where does that have a very good launch?
1:37.9	Obviously, I'm seeking attention. I consider myself a professional. Wait a minute, no.
1:49.1	I'm sorry. Excuse me. Oh, gosh. But no, I do have, I always feel like I have a freakish long-term
1:56.0	memory and a very poor short-term memory. So I can tell you every detail about, you know, my camp
2:02.3	when I was little and growing up and weird little stories about my family. And I could not tell you
2:08.6	what I wore yesterday. But I don't know how that works. Does that mean that in 50 years from now,
2:12.4	I will be able to tell you what I wore yesterday? Yes. Well, well, you'll just have to wait.
2:17.6	I hope the suspense doesn't kill you. I know. I've been sitting here waiting for you to come over
2:22.4	so I could find out what you wore yesterday. I honestly, I'm trying to, I mean, I think there
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