I can only read one essay at a time-not just because I’m distracted, but so as to savour Irby’s wit and wisdom.” “Funny and sharp-it’s a frighteningly precise look at the cultural landscape. She writes with such wisdom about our culture and such honesty about herself. “Samantha Irby’s Wow, No Thank You is a gift that everyone should give themselves and each other. three collections, which span a decade, ought to be read together, with this latest as a coda, striking its valedictory note.” This is her voice: deadpan, confiding, companionable. Read Irby because she knows what it means to live with a fair amount of panic and largely indoors. She might be our great bard of quarantine-with an unimpeachable daytime pajama look. “As fitting a response to 2020 as I can imagine. *Elle * Oprah Magazine * Vulture * New York Times * PureWow * AV CLub * Time Magazine * Entertainment Weekly * PureWow * Buzzfeed * The Observer * Bustle * Huffington Post * The Millions * Parade * Electric Literature * Bustle * Lithub * BookRiot * Bitch * Washington Independent * The Rumpus * and more * is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable.ĭon't miss Samantha Irby's new book, Quietly Hostile, coming soon! The essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby's new life.

She goes on bad dates with new friends, spends weeks in Los Angeles taking meetings with 'tv executives slash amateur astrologers' while being a 'cheese fry-eating slightly damp Midwest person,' 'with neck pain and no cartilage in knees,' who still hides past due bills under her pillow. This is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife in a Blue town in the middle of a Red state where she now hosts book clubs and makes mason jar salads. Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her.

“Stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny.” -Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror A rip-roaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays from the New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction Award Winner.

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