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Podcast: The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
Episode: Grief Is The Thing With Feathers: Sloane Crosley on friendship, loss, mourning, and Flaco the owl.
Description: This week, I'm talking with author Sloane Crosley. Best known for her humorous and existentially probing essays, Sloane's latest book is a departure of sorts. Grief Is For People, a memoir, covers the year in her life following the death of Russell Perreault, a veteran of book publishing who'd been her boss before becoming her closest friend. A month before Russell's death, Sloane's apartment was burglarized by a jewel thief, turning her into an amateur detective as she attempted to retrieve family heirlooms while reckoning with loss across several dimensions. Sloane worked as a book publicist for...