Episode 31 - Sloane Crosley: Part 1

Sloane Crosley is a journalist, essayist and now, thanks to her bright and funny debut The Clasp, a novelist. 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• her first (and diabolical) unpublished novel: 'Nothing really happens'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