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Samantha McKiver Irby (born February 13, 1980) is an American comedian, essayist, blogger, and television writer. She is the creator and author of the blog bitches gotta eat, where she writes humorous observations about her own life and modern society more broadly. Her books We Are Never Meeting in Real Life and Wow, No Thank You. were both New York Times best-sellers. She is a recipient of the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for bisexual nonfiction. She has been a writer and/or co-producer for TV shows including HBO's reboot of Sex and the City, Work in Progress, Shrill, and Tuca & Bertie. In 2016, FX announced that it had purchased the television rights to Irby's 2013 memoir Meaty and her blog, with the intent to adapt them into a series. Early life Samantha McKiver Irby's middle name is her maternal grandmother's maiden name. She was born on February 13, 1980, and grew up in Evanston, Illinois. She attended Evanston Township High School. Her mother was a nurse. In several interviews and books, Irby has discussed caring for her mother, who had multiple sclerosis, as a teenager. Irby attended Northern Illinois University, but dropped out after her mother's death. Her father was in and out of her life. His death—from hypothermia after suffering multiple heart attacks and strokes—happened six months before her mother's death. Irby began writing in the late 2000s when she started a Myspace blog. Work In her blog bitches gotta eat, Irby offers an unvarnished and humorous accounting of challenges she has faced in her personal life and discusses various topics, including her sex life and battles with Crohn's disease. She began the blog in 2009. Irby also co-hosted the live lit show Guts and Glory in Chicago with Keith Ecker until 2015, when the show ended its run. She has co-hosted The Sunday Night Sex Show, performed in several shows, including The Paper Machete and Story Club, and her work has appeared in The Rumpus, In Our Words, and Jezebel. Irby has published five books: We Are Never Meeting in Real Life; Meaty; New Year, Same Trash; Wow, No Thank You; and Quietly Hostile. Meaty was published by Curbside Splendor Publishing in 2013, then republished in 2018 by Vintage Books. It is in development for adaptation as a television show on FX called Guts and Glory, with comedian Abbi Jacobson and writer Jessi Klein. In 2017, Irby's second book, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, was published by Vintage Books. It made The New York Times best-seller list for paperback nonfiction. The fourth collection of essays, Wow, No Thank You, was released in March 2020. Irby stated on her social media pages that her book tour would be online due to COVID-19. The book debuted in the New York Times best-seller list's number one spot for Paperback Nonfiction. In 2018, Irby wrote the fourth episode, "Pool", of the first season of Shrill. It was released on March 15, 2019. In February 2021, Irby was announced as a co-producer and writer on And Just Like That..., the HBO reboot of Sex and the City. She was the lead writer of Season 1 Episode 5, "Tragically Hip." Her essay collection Wow, No Thank You. won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Non-Fiction at the 33rd Lambda Literary Awards in 2021. In July 2021, Irby wrote an episode for the second season of Tuca & Bertie, "Vibe Check". Personal life Irby married in 2016. Her wife is Kirsten Jennings. She now lives and works in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Irby has been open about her struggles with Crohn's disease, degenerative arthritis, and depression, often discussing her experiences in her writing. She is friends with writers Roxane Gay and Lindy West. Publications Meaty (2013, Curbside Splendor Publishing: ISBN 9780988825864: 2018, Vintage) New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions I Absolutely Did Not Keep (2017, Vintage, e-book: ISBN 9780525435150) We Are Never Meeting in Real Life (2017, Vintage: ISBN 9781101912195) "Country Crock" in Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America (eds. Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding, 2017, Picador: ISBN 9781250155504) Wow, No Thank You.: Essays, (March 2020, Vintage, ISBN 978-0525563488) Quietly Hostile (May 2023, Penguin Random House, ISBN 9780593315699) References Citations Works cited Irby, Samantha (2018). Meaty. Vintage Books. External links Official website Abbi Jacobson and Sam Irby on A Piece of Work podcast, WNYC Studios/MoMA. Discover the Samantha Irby popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Samantha Irby books.
Best Seller Samantha Irby Books of 2024
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Girls Can Kiss Now
Jill Gutowitz“Wickedly funny and heartstoppingly vulnerable…every page twinkles with brilliance.” Refinery29Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a hilarious, whipsmart collection...
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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
Samantha IrbyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This essay collection from the “bitches gotta eat” blogger, writer on Hulu’s Shrill and HBO's And Just Like That, and “one of our country’s most fierce a...
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Black Futures
Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham“A literary experience unlike any I’ve had in recent memory . . . a blueprint for this moment and the next, for where Black folks have been and where they might be going.”The New Y...
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See Me Rolling
Lottie Jackson'The world was sadly not my lobster, it was a skimpy crayfish from a petrol station sandwich and it was on the turn.'In this heartfelt, thoughtprovoking and often hilarious book, L...
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Survival of the Thickest
Michelle ButeauNow a comedy series on Netflix! From the standup comedian, actress, and host beloved for her cheeky swagger, unique voice, and unapologetic frankness comes a book of “zesty and hil...
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Quietly Hostile
Samantha IrbyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GLAMOUR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A hilarious new essay collection from Samantha Irby "engages readers with her characteristic combination of laughou...
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Well, This Is Exhausting
Sophia BenoitFrom Bustle columnist and Twitter sensation Sophia Benoit, this “charming and often laughoutloud funny” (Vogue) memoirinessays explores the ins and outs of modern womanhoodfrom fin...
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A River Passes By Here
Caroline Eaton TraceyRUNNERUP OF THE 2020 BODLEY HEAD / FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZE'Just before the COVID19 quarantine, I moved into my girlfriend's apartment, a renovated garage in a forgotten triangl...
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Trust No Aunty
Maria QamarBased on her popular Instagram @Hatecopy and her experience in a South Asian immigrant family, artist Maria Qamar has created a humorous, illustrated “survival guide” to deal with ...
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Meaty
Samantha IrbyThe 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...
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Some of My Best Friends
Tajja IsenA fearless, “funny, poignant, and supersmart” (Ms. magazine) essay collection about race, justice, and the limits of good intentions.In this “inspiring, determined work of personal...
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Wow, No Thank You.
Samantha Irby#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction Award Winner A riproaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays from the New...
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Comrades
Rosita Boland'I was fascinated, moved and entertained by every page. This is the kind of book the world needs right now' DONAL RYAN'My dictionary's first two definitions of 'comrade' are:A clos...
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New Year, Same Trash
Samantha IrbyComedian, 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 woowoo others, Irby sets seventy microresol...
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Sista Sister
Candice BrathwaiteCandice Brathwaite's muchanticipated second book about all the things she wishes she'd been told when she was young and needed guidance.I Am Not Your Baby Mother was a landmark pub...
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The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic
Jessica Hopper"Jessica Hopper's criticism is a trenchant and necessary counterpoint not just on music, but on our culture at large." Annie Clark, St. VincentAn acclaimed, careerspanning collecti...
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Idiots
Laura CleryA fresh, hilarious, and relatable collection of essays about everything from motherhood and marriage to sobriety and worklife balance (or imbalance) from the nationally bestselling...
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The Cockroach and I
Saranya SubramanianRUNNERUP OF THE 2020 BODLEY HEAD / FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZE'It's an exhausting, futile battle, really. Every night, the same smug cockroach squeezes herself out of my bathroom d...
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How to Be Alone
Lane MooreThe former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving fi...
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The Age of Magical Overthinking
Amanda MontellFrom the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases...