Wow, No Thank You.: Essays Pdf Summary
Wow, No Thank You.: Essay is a new essay collection from Samantha Irby about aging, marriage, settling down with step-children in white, small-town America.
Irby is turning forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and is courted by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife and two step-children in a small white, Republican town in Michigan where she now hosts book clubs. This is the bourgeois life of dreams. She goes on bad dates with new friends, spends weeks in Los Angeles taking meetings with “skinny, luminous peoples” while being a “cheese fry-eating slightly damp Midwest person,” “with neck pain and no cartilage in [her] knees,” and hides Entenmann’s cookies under her bed and unopened bills under her pillow.
Into the gross —
Girls gone mild —
Hung up! —
Late-1900s time capsule —
Love and marriage —
Are you familiar with my work? —
Hysterical! —
Lesbian bed death —
Body negativity —
Country crock —
A guide to simple home repairs —
We almost got a f**king dog —
Detachment parenting —
Season 1, episode 1 —
Hollywood summer —
$$$ —
Hello, 911? —
An extremely specific guide to publishing a book
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Wow No Thank You. Essays Review
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3.0 out of 5 stars There were parts I loved and parts I skimmed
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2022
This is a tough book to rate because parts of it were 4- and 5-star worthy and parts of it were so boring that I decided to skim. This is the third Irby “book” I’ve read so far (yes I’m counting that short New Years essay she wrote and published on Kindle), and unlike a lot of the nay-sayers on Amazon, I actually really like her ribald, in-your-face sense of humor, especially about bodily functions. She is very open about her Crohn’s and I think that is super important. Doctors actually thought me and my family had an IBS-like disease for a while but it turns out we had a super serious corn sensitivity, so honestly, I GET IT. Maybe if more people talked about it, I would have saved myself years of– ahem– intestinal strife.
I also love how she writes about all sorts of other “you can’t say that on television!”-type topics, like the natural stuff that comes with aging, what it’s like being plus-size (and not giving a hoot about it!), a total unapologetic recount of some of her relationships with men and women (including her wife) as a bisexual woman. And stuff about blended families and the difficulties that come with that.
I think the strongest portions of the book were where she writes about anxiety and depression and also her own history and successes and failures. She has a very chatty, readable narrative that really reminded me of Lindy West (so I was not at all surprised to find out they are apparently friends). Her dating advice section was HILARIOUS (and I would probably read an entire book just about that). I also liked the chapter about mixed tapes and some of her favorite 90s/00s songs and their importance to her. Less strong were the passages that kind of read like she’d run out of ideas, like the list of things that are better than sex, the “hello, 911?” section where it’s just a list of anxiety triggers, and the section on home improvement. The only thing more boring than house work is reading about house work.
The ending kind of picked up again with her ultimate fangirl moment of meeting Janeane Garofolo and how that ended up resulting in Abbi Jacobson from Broad City reaching out to her (!!!), or how Lindy West invited her to write for Shrill. I also kind of liked the section about how she got her book published, and the nostalgic mentions of MySpace’s blog feature (I totally forgot about that).
If I could shave out everything I didn’t really like as much about this book, I would give this a much higher rating. But because of how much I ended up skimming, three stars seems fair. Samantha Irby is still my fellow curmudgeon-in-arms though, and I can’t wait for her next collection of essays.
4.0 out of 5 stars Wow, Yes Please!
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2020
Wow wow wow! It took me a few chapters to really get into it but once I did, this just took off. It’s hilarious and irreverent and SO SO RELATABLE. There were times when I would stop to read bits out loud to my fiance because the passage fit him perfectly.
This was exactly what I needed at this moment. There’s nothing like a prolonged fit of hysterical laughter, especially when in public and wearing a mask and no one can tell if I’m laughing, crying, or having a seizure. I also appreciate the celebration of occasionally doing as little as possible. There’s a move to be crazy-productive during the pandemic/quarantine and I felt a huge weight removed from my shoulders reading Irby’s words.
4.0 out of 5 stars Every Time I Thought..
.Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2021
I can’t read another swearing poop joke, Sam was off on a tangent (it reads like the paths in an anthill) showing her sweet and tender heart right up to the next sentence where she invariably told another laugh-a-minute about bodily function! Don’t let fool you: she’s been through a lot and she ain’t afraid to plaster it across a billboard on the crosstown.
About Samantha Irby Author of Wow No Thank You. Essays Pdf Book
Samantha McKiver Irby Author of Wow No Thank You. Essays Pdf Book (born February 13, 1980) is an American comedian, essayist, blogger, and television writer. She is the creator and author of the blog bitches gotta eat, where she writes humorous observations about her own life and modern society more broadly. Her books We Are Never Meeting in Real Life and Wow, No Thank You. were both New York Times best-sellers. She is a recipient of the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for bisexual nonfiction.
She has been a writer and/or co-producer for TV shows including HBO’s reboot of Sex and the City, Work in Progress, Shrill, and Tuca & Bertie. In 2016, FX announced that they had purchased the television rights to Irby’s 2013 memoir Meaty and her blog, with the intent to adapt them into a series.
Wow No Thank You. Essays pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : Vintage (March 31, 2020)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0525563482
- ISBN-13 : 978-0525563488
- Item Weight : 8.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.16 x 0.72 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #38,157 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #118 in Essays (Books)
- #169 in Humor Essays (Books)
- #1,688 in Memoirs (Books)
- Customer Reviews: 4.2 out of 5 stars 2,970 ratings
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