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. 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. The 1 New York Times Bestseller autorstwa Samantha Irby dostpnego w Rakuten Kobo. This is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream. 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. Wow, No Thank You is the latest collection that mines her life for. Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. We’ll take laughs whenever we can get them these days, and the comic essayist Samantha Irby provides a lot of them. Irby’s closeness to financial and physical precariousness combined with her willingness to enter situations she feels unprepared for make us loyal to her-she again proves herself to be a trustworthy and admirable narrator who readers will hold fast to through anything at all.A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and bestselling Samantha Irby. Irby defines professional lingo and describes the mundane details of exclusive industries in anecdotes that are not only entertaining but powerfully demystifying. She proves we can still trust her authenticity not just through her questionable taste in music and descriptions of incredibly bloody periods, but through her willingness to demystify what happens in any privileged room she finds herself in. She dodges calls from Hollywood and flop sweats on the red carpet at premieres (well, one premiere). Irby’s career has taken her to new heights. If anyone whose life is being made into a television show could continue to keep it real for her blog reading fans, it’s Irby. New York Times bestselling author of Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page with Quietly Hostile, a much-anticipated new collection of essays. Her essays poke holes and luxuriate in the weirdness of modern society. From relationship advice she wasn’t asked for to surrendering her cell phone as dinner etiquette, Irby is wholly unpretentious as she opines about the unspoken expectations of adulting. Haphazard and aimless as she claims to be, Samantha Irby’s Wow, No Thank You is purposefully hilarious, real, and full of medicine for living with our culture’s contradictory messages.
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