Bestselling author and humorist Sloane Crosley to discuss acclaimed memoir Grief is for People at The Mark Twain House & Museum on March 12
Sloane Crosley’s Grief Is for People
Mark Twain House & Museum • 351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut
March 12, 2025
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The Mark Twain House & Museum (MTH&M) announced today a live and in-person appearance by New York Times-bestselling author Sloane Crosley discussing her acclaimed memoir Grief is for People on Wednesday, March 12 at 7pm. Paralleling the unexpected loss of her best friend, a home burglary of family heirlooms and the arrival of the COVID pandemic, Crosley recounts the emotional and oftentimes humorous journey that she travels in a tumultuous and unsettling year.
The author will be in conversation with MTH&M Literary Program Coordinator Omar Acevedo at the museum located at 351 Farmington Avenue in Hartford. Admission is $10 or a $23 ticket and book bundle available. Crosley will be signing books immediately following the event. To register, visit MarkTwainHouse.org/event/.
Grief is for People
Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley’s memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend. How do we live without the ones we love? After the pain and confusion of losing her closest friend to suicide, Sloane Crosley looks for answers in philosophy and art, hoping for a framework more useful than the unavoidable stages of grief.
For most of her adult life, Sloane and Russell worked together and played together as they navigated the corridors of office life, the literary world, and the dramatic cultural shifts in New York City. One day, Sloane’s apartment is broken into. Along with her most prized possessions, the thief makes off with her sense of security, leaving a mystery in its place.
When Russell dies exactly one month later, his death propels Sloane on a wild quest to right the unrightable, to explore what constitutes family and possession as the city itself faces the staggering toll of the pandemic.
Sloane Crosley’s search for truth is frank, wickedly funny, and gilded with resounding empathy. Upending the “grief memoir,” Grief Is for People is a story of the struggle to hold on to the past without being consumed by it. A contemporary elegy, it rises to console and challenge our notions of mourning during these grief-stricken times.
Grief is for People was been selected as a 2024 Best Book of the Year by Vogue, TIME, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Esquire, NPR, Elle, Library Journal, LitHub, Oprah Daily, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus, Bookpage, The Independent, and New Statesman.
Sloane Crosley
Sloane Crosley is the author of The New York Times bestselling books Grief is for People, How Did You Get This Number, and I Was Told There’d Be Cake (a 2009 finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor). She is also the author of Look Alive Out There (a 2019 finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor) and the novels, Cult Classic and The Clasp. Her work has been translated into ten languages. She has been featured in The Library of America’s 50 Funniest American Writers, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best American Travel Writing, Phillip Lopate’s The Contemporary American Essay and others. A contributing editor at Vanity Fair, her work has appeared in various publications including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue and The Guardian. She has been an adjunct professor in Columbia University’s MFA program and a guest teacher at Dartmouth College and The Yale Writers’ Workshop. She lives in New York City.
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