Samantha Irby

Samantha Irby's debut features narrative essays by a sex-obsessed dummy laughing her way through tacos, Crohn's Disease, and ridiculous dudes.

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ONE OF STYLIST'S BEST NEW BOOKS FOR 2020 'This is an unforgettable book.' Roxane Gay Meditations on the terror of love; tips for getting your disgusting meat carcass ready for some new, hot sex; a frank self-evaluation upon the occasion of one's 30th birthday; and, finally, the answer to the question on everyone's minds: Would dying alone really be so terrible? Blogger and comedian Samantha Irby covers it all with wit and honesty - and serves it with a side of Instagram frittata.

Ellie Younger

I met Sam Irby at a book talk, and was so surprised by her personable and genuine attitude. She held conversations with all of us, and made me appreciate her work even more. I love her crude humor for making me let loose and laugh in hard times. She makes light of difficult issues, and shares the pain of auto- immune diseases. There were some essays in this collection that made me cry, some made me collapse in fits of laughter and others I skipped- as I have no interest in recipes for alcoholic beverages. Hilarious, raw, honest.

Daryl Houston

I picked this one up after a friend posted a glowing review of Irby generally (as like an internet personage you'd want to be best friends with) and suggested that this was one to read.

The thing is, it's a blog that has been printed and given a cover. I like blogs. The existence of blogs is the basis of my livelihood, and there is lots of great blog content out there. Some of Irby's content is in fact great blog content and some of it could be made into fantastic essay collection content. But for me that's kind of where it ends. I think that any number of the essays in this book would have made good reads as the sort of isolated things that pop up in my Facebook feed enough times that I finally then go read to see what the hype is about and wind up clutching my stomach laughing over. But as a collection of essays, this thing really just didn't work for me. It felt like I was binge-reading a blog, and that's just a different experience to me than reading a cohesive and polished book of essays.

I feel like Irby's got a hilarious, sad book in her, but this one isn't it.

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'This is an unforgettable book, the kind where the author unapologetically bares her heart and asks you to hold it tenderly, with care.' Roxane Gay Meditations on the terror of love; tips for getting your disgusting meat carcass ready for some new, hot sex; a frank self-evaluation upon the occasion of one's 30th birthday; and, finally, the answer to the question on everyone's minds: Would dying alone really be so terrible? Blogger and comedian Samantha Irby covers it all with wit and honesty - and serves it with a side of Instagram frittata.

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