A former book publicist at Random House in New York, Sloane Crosley is the author of two bestselling essay collections, I Was Told There’d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number, and has been described as the Dorothy Parker of the 21st century. The Clasp, her hectic and funny first novel, comes with high praise from, among others, Michael Chabon and David Sedaris. Inspired by Guy de Maupassant’s story, The Necklace, it is about three college friends – Kezia, who works for a crazed jewellery designer; Nathaniel, who is trying and failing to make it in Hollywood; and Victor, now unemployed, having been fired by the search engine for which he did something in “data” – who embark on the trail of a legendary but long-lost piece of jewellery…
Is it more nerve-racking publishing a novel than your personal essays?
Yes. Everyone assumes that nonfiction is the more exposing. But I don’t feel like that. With nonfiction, you’re bouncing off facts. At a certain point, you’ll hit a wall, and on that wall will be written: “I was nine”, or “this is just the way it happened”, or whatever. The nature of fiction, though, is that you must make so many decisions. You have to think about every ice cube in every glass of whisky.
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