![]() ![]() ![]() In “Love and Marriage,” Irby answers relationship questions the way we all need our friends to, but know they won’t. She has a way of convincing you that, though she’s not saying she is, she is right. The opening piece begins with Irby’s take on lifestyle bloggers who keep $300 eye cream, “tossed so casually on nightstand like wouldn’t even cry if lost it.” It’s understood that it would be natural to cry, like Irby does, if our cream that cost as much as a third of rent went missing. Irby’s signature sardonic voice nibbles playfully at your ear from the first page, where she dedicates the collection to Wellbutrin. ![]() Despite proclaiming that much of her work (including her previous books Meaty and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life) has been primarily “about butts,” Irby delivers essays in Wow, No Thank You that are pithy, laugh-until-you-bend-over-funny and insightful. She has a way of making you feel close to her. Though (spoiler alert) depression has followed her from Chicago, Irby’s collection shows a little more vulnerability and a little less deflection than her previous books. ![]() In her latest collection of essays, Wow, No Thank You., Samantha Irby details life now that she’s forty, married, and living in the Midwest with her wife. ![]()
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