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Samantha Irby
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Samantha Irby is an American comedian, essayist, blogger, and television writer whose nonfiction draws humor from her life and observations of modern society.
Biography
Samantha McKiver Irby is an American comedian, essayist, blogger, and television writer born on February 13, 1980. She created and writes the blog bitches gotta eat, using humor to explore her own experiences and comment on modern society. Her books We Are Never Meeting in Real Life and Wow, No Thank You. were New York Times best-sellers. She received the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for bisexual nonfiction.
Irby's television work includes writing and/or co-producing for And Just Like That..., Work in Progress, Shrill, and Tuca & Bertie. In 2016, FX announced that it had purchased television rights to her 2013 memoir Meaty and her blog, with plans to adapt them into a series.
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Books by Samantha Irby
We are Never Meeting in Real Life
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life chronicles Samantha Irby's personal experiences with candid humor, including a Nashville trip to scatter her estranged father's ashes, awkward sexual encounters, and a Bachelorette application gone awry.