Author guide
Samantha Irby is an American essayist, humorist, blogger, comedian, and television writer. Her nonfiction draws on chronic illness, relationships, race, sexuality, family, aging, and everyday life with a distinctive combination of candor, vulnerability, and dark humor. She is the author of five separately published books, including the essay collections Meaty, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., Wow, No Thank You., and Quietly Hostile.
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essay_collection · First published 2023
This will be another signature collection from Sam, drawing on her own experiences of the last few years. It is suffused with her unique blend of piercing social observation, intimate revelation and lots of physical detail to keep us all as wildly entertained as ever.
Not sure where to begin?
Chronological starting point and debut essay collection.
Widely recognized breakthrough collection and an accessible entry point.
Outside the series
essay_collection · 2013
The smart, edgy, hilarious, and unabashedly raunchy New York Times bestselling author explodes onto the printed page in her uproarious first collection of essays. "Whether she’s writing about her latest inflammatory bowel disease attack…
essay_collection · 2017
Comedian, blogger and essayist Samantha Irby is not going to be a better person this year than she was last. Nope. With a small group of woo-woo others, Irby sets seventy micro-resolutions, and then—with the rest of us—she fails at almost…
essay_collection · 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This essay collection from the “bitches gotta eat” blogger, writer on Hulu’s Shrill, and “one of our country’s most fierce and foulmouthed authors” (Amber Tamblyn, Vulture) is sure to make you alternately…
essay_collection · 2020
Staring down the barrel of her fortieth year, Samantha Irby is confronting the ways her life has changed since the days she could work a full 11 hour shift on 4 hours of sleep, change her shoes and put mascara on in the back of a moving…
essay_collection · 2023
This will be another signature collection from Sam, drawing on her own experiences of the last few years. It is suffused with her unique blend of piercing social observation, intimate revelation and lots of physical detail to keep us all…
