Sloane Crosley

Her first collection of personal essays, I Was Told There Would Be Cake, revealed a whip-smart young New Yorker—a writer with a droll and unique understanding of being a young person living in the city. In Crosley's latest book—How Did You Get This Number?, from which she reads tonight—the author maintains all of those qualities (particularly in an essay about a kleptomaniac New York roommate) and more, including misadventures that find her in Lisbon, Paris and Alaska.