Sloane Crosley is a journalist, essayist and now, thanks to her bright and funny debut The Clasp, a novelist. ----more----Sloane took a break from her home city New York to visit London and talk about the challenge of shifting gears from non-fiction to fiction. We began however with her own career as an interviewer, when she recalled a nightmare encounter with The Strokes' Julian Casablancas.
From there, we moved to:
- the difference between Crosley the essays and Crosley the novelist
- her first (and diabolical) unpublished novel: 'Nothing really happens'
- the importance of plot: 'I knew I didn't want a navel-gazing novel'
- what kind of book did Crosley want to write?
- 'I am a relatively rare bird in that I am a social writer'
- how vineyards and egg-timers helped Crosley finish The Clasp
- the importance of editing
- The Clasp: a summary
- Guy de Maupassant
- Maupassant's 'The Necklace' and the importance of short stories
- real and The Clasp
Part Two to Follow.
Sloane Crosley's website is: here.
