I Was Told There'd Be Cake
Encyclopedia
I Was Told There'd Be Cake is a New York Times
-bestselling collection of essays by American
writer and literary publicist Sloane Crosley
.
described it as "a funny book, and also a wistful book and a touching book". Elsewhere, the San Francisco Chronicle
reviewer noted that while the book featured "sharp, self-effacing humor", the book's style reveals the author as "too clever for her own good" and "not... very, well, nice", though that by the book's end, "we forgive her deceptions".
In 2011, the title was used during the Occupied Wall Street protests with signs saying "I Was Told There Would Be Cake."
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
-bestselling collection of essays by American
United States
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writer and literary publicist Sloane Crosley
Sloane Crosley
Sloane Crosley is a writer living in New York and the author of best-selling collections of essays, I Was Told There'd Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number....
.
Reception
In 2008, I Was Told There'd Be Cake paved the way for several funny female essayists. Author Jonathan Lethem called Crosley "another mordant and mercurial wit from the realm of Sedaris and Vowell." David Sedaris called her writing "sure-footed, observant and relentlessly funny." Kirkus Reviews called it "Witty and entertaining"; the Seattle Times said "this book about nothing is riveting to the very end"; the New York ObserverNew York Observer
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described it as "a funny book, and also a wistful book and a touching book". Elsewhere, the San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
thumb|right|upright|The Chronicle Building following the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake]] and fireThe San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California,...
reviewer noted that while the book featured "sharp, self-effacing humor", the book's style reveals the author as "too clever for her own good" and "not... very, well, nice", though that by the book's end, "we forgive her deceptions".
In 2011, the title was used during the Occupied Wall Street protests with signs saying "I Was Told There Would Be Cake."