Host Emily Young speaks with Sloane Crosley, author of the new essay collection HOW DID YOU GET THIS NUMBER.? 

Crosley is the author the 2008 best-selling debut collection I Was Told There’d Be Cake.

While Crosley still lives and works in Manhattan—where the majority of her debut collection was set—this time she also ventures well beyond her beloved metropolis. This time we find Sloane making friends with a trio of amateur circus clowns in Lisbon, lying to a Catholic priest in a French confession booth, crossing paths with a grizzly bear in Alaska, and, back in New York, attempting to ditch her kleptomaniac roommate.