Overview

With We Are Never Meeting In Real Life: Essays, "bitches gotta eat" blogger and comedian turns the seriocomic essay into an art form. Samantha Irby “[is] one of our country’s most fierce and foulmouthed authors” (Amber Tamblyn, Vulture). Whether Samantha Irby is talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem in making “adult” budgets; explaining why she should be the new Bachelorette (she's "35-ish, but could easily pass for 60-something"); detailing a disastrous pilgrimage-slash-romantic-vacation to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes; sharing awkward sexual encounters; or dispensing advice on how to navigate friendships with former drinking buddies who are now suburban moms (hang in there for the Costco loot!); she’s as deft at poking fun at the ghosts of her past self as she is at capturing powerful emotional truths. Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire - sure to make you alternately cackle with glee and cry real tears.