![]() Wow, No Thank You is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable. The essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby's new life. In Are You Familiar With My Work Irby takes the reader on this hilarious twisty-turny ride of an introvert recently moved to a small Michigan city who is trying to meet new friends among folks she’s not quite sure she even wants to be bothered with. 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. There’s an essay in Samantha Irby’s new book, Wow, No Thank You, that I just couldn’t shake. ![]() This is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY This overly manic collection from blogger Irby (We Are Never Meeting in Real Life) hints at the author's talent, but ultimately disappoints. ![]() ![]() 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. is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable. Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and bestselling Samantha Irby. ![]()
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