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‘Samantha Irby is hilarious… Nothing is off limits and I love it. ‘The only writer who can make me laugh with abandon in public… Her signature irreverence is intact, of course, but it can’t mask the heart she leaves bleeding on the page.’ Elle Be prepared to totally lose control of the noises that come out of your body while reading the latest essay collection from humor writer Samantha Irby.’ Bustle

‘Samantha Irby is the king of sparkling misanthropy and tender, loving dread.’ Jia Tolentino Recently, things are more ‘Girls Gone Mild.’ In Wow, No Thank You Irby discusses the actual nightmare of living in a rural idyll, weighs in on body negativity (loving yourself is a full-time job with shitty benefits) and poses the essential question: Sure sex is fun but have you ever googled a popular meme? Staring down the barrel of her fortieth year, Samantha Irby is confronting the ways her life has changed since the days she could work a full 11 hour shift on 4 hours of sleep, change her shoes and put mascara on in the back of a moving cab and go from drinks to dinner to the club without a second thought. I laughed out loud so much reading this - I honestly couldn’t be more in awe of her.’ Sara Pascoe Samantha Irby makes staying in feel like like a luxury, and reminds you that going out is actually quite annoying.

‘Irby might be our great bard of quarantine.’ New York Times Wow, No Thank You is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable.** QUIETLY HOSTILE – THE HILARIOUS NEW BOOK FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR – IS AVAILABE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** 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. This is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream. C omedy writer Samantha Irby charmingly writes about the things that many of us are too guarded to say out loud: the difficulty of making new friends or following through on nighttime plans. 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. Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and bestselling Samantha Irby.