![]() The comedy derives from the scrapes our wise-cracking heroine gets herself into, as she works her day job at the pet hospital and braves the dating scene. That’s the backdrop to Irby’s long-running prose sitcom. Irby kept that site running from 2009 to 2014, as it gained a cult readership and eventually yielded a “blog-to-book” publishing success story. She wrote about her life there at length, blurring the line between the diary and essay forms. Irby’s career as a writer began on MySpace, but it was the Blogspot site BitchesGottaEat that made her name. It’s Irby’s third collection of essays, although they all read more like beautifully edited blogs. ![]() This misanthropic apothegm is from Irby’s new book, Wow, No Thank You, which debuted at the top of The New York Times’s paperback nonfiction bestsellers list two weeks ago. “Good ol’ thermometer dick,” Irby writes, a preacher circling around to the moral of her sermon: “reminding me that no good deed goes unpunished and you should never do anything nice, ever, for anyone.” The next time Irby’s suitor knocked on her door, “bearing nothing but lidded eyes and a throbbing erection,” he was alarmed by the inflamed torso he’d admired before. ![]() Flattered, she gave it an exfoliating treatment, which unfortunately scraped the skin raw. A man once complimented Samantha Irby’s back during sex. ![]()
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