Cult Classic: A Novel

Written by Sloane Crosley

Narrated by Sloane Crosley

"This is a surreal and hilarious insight into millennial dating with a big twist, and the narrator will have you hooked from the very beginning." -Buzzfeed

"Crosley reads with an incisive understanding of Lola's psyche. She hits all of the notes of sarcasm and reluctant self-reflection, and somehow even manages to give her searching optimism a fatalistic undertone. There are no character voices or modulations in pacing, leaving listeners with only Lola's perspective—a fitting narration for this delightfully cynical love story." -Booklist on Cult Classic

"...anyone will enjoy listening to Sloane read her novel about Lola, a young arts-and-culture editor who mysteriously keeps running into her ex-boyfriends." -Vulture

Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully crafted tale of love, memory, morality, and mind control, as well as a fresh foray into the philosophy of romance.

MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of 2022 by Glamour, W, Nylon, Fortune, Lit Hub, The Millions, and more!

This program is read by the author.

One night in New York City’s Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another. Nothing is quite what it seems as the city becomes awash with ghosts of heartbreaks past.

What would normally pass for coincidence becomes something far stranger as the recently engaged Lola must contend not only with the viability of her current relationship but the fact that both her best friend and her former boss, a magazine editor turned mystical guru, might have an unhealthy investment in the outcome. Memories of the past swirl and converge in ways both comic and eerie, as Lola is forced to decide if she will surrender herself to the conspiring of one very contemporary cult.

Is it possible to have a happy ending in an age when the past is ever at your fingertips and sanity is for sale? With her gimlet eye, Sloane Crosley spins a wry literary fantasy that is equal parts must-listen and poignant portrayal of alienation.

A Macmillan Audio production from MCD Books

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Release date: Jun 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9781250856517

Sloane Crosley

SLOANE CROSLEY is the author of one novel, The Clasp, and two New York Times bestselling books of personal essays, I Was Told There’d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number. Currently the Hot Type columnist for Vanity Fair, she lives in Manhattan.

Reviews for Cult Classic

[Morryah McCurdy · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

As Crosley writes, you can tell she is a journalist who loves in new York and it made me enjoy the story so much more, like it's a first hand account and not some made up story. I actually really enjoyed this novel and plan to reread it to get some of my misunderstanding sussed out. If not an enjoyable story about the boyfriends of 'Christmas' past, it's an intriguing look into relationships as we all, at least I, find extremely relatable and it made me enjoy the trustfulness that it made me consider.