Meaty: Essays

by Samantha Irby

Smart, edgy, hilarious, and unabashedly raunchy New York Times bestselling author Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page in her uproarious first collection of essays. 

Irby laughs her way through tragicomic mishaps, neuroses, and taboos as she struggles through adulthood: chin hairs, depression, bad sex, failed relationships, masturbation, taco feasts, inflammatory bowel disease and more. Updated with her favorite Instagramable, couch-friendly recipes, this much-beloved romp is treat for anyone in dire need of Irby's infamous, scathing wit and poignant candor.

• ISBN10: 0525436162
• ISBN13: 9780525436164
• Publish Date: 3 April 2018 (first published 9 September 2013)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Vintage Books
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 272
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780525436164

Reviews

[merryfaith]

I wanted to love this - and the few essays that I did, I really really did. But the rest, while well written and dryly funny, I didn't. It wasn't like I was dragging my feet through this, I just felt myself being like, "alright then" at the end of most essays. Maybe that was the point, but at I picked this up based on a recommendation that Irby writes stuff that makes you laugh out loud a lot, and I was at the point of quarantine where I SO needed that, so maybe I went in with the wrong expectations based on my sense of humor and no familiarity with her work.

Reviewers seem to love her newer collections a little more, I'll still check them out, now that I'm used to her writing style. Don't write this off because of my meh review, humor is subjective.

[funbreaker4opal]

Ms. Irby got really TMI sometimes, but the essays were all hilarious. Planning on reading more of hers!