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Wow, No Thank You (2020) is a comic essay collection by American essayist Samantha Irby. We all need some humor, well definitely during this time. This book is hilarious, sometimes painful, and showcases the gross truth. Through those truths, she instead proves that she is resilient, raunchy, pertinent, and insightful.
Ever since the publication of Meaty in 2013, Irby's essays have been required reading on the millennial condition. In her latest collection, the writer -- now is forty and living a Pinterest-modified version of the American dream in a small Midwestern town -- turns addictively bummed-out wit to topics like 'lesbian bed death' and the difficulty of making adult friendships
This is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream. She goes on bad dates with new friends, spends weeks in LA taking meetings with 'tv executives/amateur astrologers' while being a "cheesy fry-eating slightly damp Midwest person".
The essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby's new life. The new life contains aging, marriage, settling down with step-children in white, small-town America. In it, Irby is at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable attitude.
"Stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny... irresistible as a snack tray, as intimately pleasurable as an Irish goodbye." -- Jia Tolentino
"If you've never heard or read anything by Irby, do yourself a favor and head straight to Google...Her essays are so relatable, they're healing."-- Washington Independent Review of Books, *Most Anticipated Books of 2020*
About the Author
Samantha McKiver Irby ( born February 13, 1980) is an American comedian, author, and blogger. She runs the blog Bitches Gotta Eat, where she writes posts about her personal life and events.
A list of her books and collection of essays: We Are Never Meeting in Real Life (2017) and Wow, No Thank Your: Essays (2020) had given her a recognizable place in the literature world. Her other works like Meaty (2013), New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions- Absolutely Did Not Keep (2017), 'Country Crock' in Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America (2017) are also popular among readers.
Irby also co-hosted the live lit show Guts and Glory in Chicago with Keith Ecker until 2015, where the show ended its run. In 2016 FX announced that they had purchased the television rights to Irby's 2013 memoir Meaty and her blog, with the intent to adapt them into a series.
Irby married Kristen Jennings in 2016 and resides in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic and published successful books and has been friend-zoned by Hollywood and famous writers like Roxane Gay and Lindy West.
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Rating: 4.3/5
Author: Samantha Irby
Publisher: Vintage
Publishing Date: March 31, 2020
Edition Language: English
Genre: Humor, Biography, Autobiography, Essay, Memoir
ISBN-10: 0525563482
ISBN-13: 978-0525563488
Pages: 336 (Paperback)
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