Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Lambda Literary Award)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction Award Winner • A rip-roaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays from the New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
“Stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny.” —Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror
Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. 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. This is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream. 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 [her] knees," who still hides past due bills under her pillow.
The essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby's new life. Wow, No Thank You. is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable.
Don't miss Samantha Irby's bestselling new book, Quietly Hostile!
“Stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny.” —Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror
Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. 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. This is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream. 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 [her] knees," who still hides past due bills under her pillow.
The essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby's new life. Wow, No Thank You. is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable.
Don't miss Samantha Irby's bestselling new book, Quietly Hostile!
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OMG I can't remember the last time I actually laughed this hard at something! Samantha Irby is hilarious, period. All that weird, inappropriate stuff that is floating around in your head that you'd never say to anybody? Yup, she says it!
I'm embarrassed I never heard of her until a week or two ago. Now I gotta go find all her books and everything else she's ever done. Bye!
I'm embarrassed I never heard of her until a week or two ago. Now I gotta go find all her books and everything else she's ever done. Bye!
I love Samantha Irby!! If you love honest, funny writing about being a woman, queer, or gen-x, this book is for you.
Okay so I really enjoyed these! This was my first time reading Irby, and I’m v glad I did. Nothing spoke to me more than her lack of adulting skills, Bc SAME, and I also loved when she mentioned being a rat and not voting but ultimately voting Bc of Obama. I think it’s hard for people who aren’t “I vote every election” people to not be beyond shamed, by people (like myself) who lecture them EVERY TIME they miss an election.
While this entire collection is smart, funny, and relatable, I knew I loved this book when Sam says that she can’t watch ”This is Us” BC that’s me. No matter how much people go on about that show, their portrayal of fatness left a BAD taste in my mouth.
Anyways, smart, funny, relatable. Loved it.
While this entire collection is smart, funny, and relatable, I knew I loved this book when Sam says that she can’t watch ”This is Us” BC that’s me. No matter how much people go on about that show, their portrayal of fatness left a BAD taste in my mouth.
Anyways, smart, funny, relatable. Loved it.
I think I may have done myself a disservice by not reading Samantha Irby’s other books before this one, however, I still thoroughly enjoyed it. She’s self deprecating and doesn’t take herself too seriously and is so honest and funny about the ways in which we’re all just trying to get by. It was a little darker than I expected at moments and I found some of the essays to be a little long for my liking, but I laughed out loud on more than one occasion and that’s a real win!
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