Irby’s voice is strong throughout the book, and easy to get swept up in. My good attitude stuck around through each of Irby’s essays, which range widely from marriage and publishing advice to being haunted by a dead cat and putting together the perfect 90s mixtape. “Still, being featured on a stylish lifestyle blog is my biggest secret dream, and because I am too disgusting to ever be asked in real life, I want to tell you how mine would go.” It was the second page of the book, and I was already chuckling. 1 best seller for paperback nonfiction, so I decided it was time to see what humorous essays were all about. But Samantha Irby’s “Wow, No Thank You” was one of the most talked-about releases of the spring and the current No. Dragons, aliens and memoirs were all fine, but outside of a joke book or two as a kid I had never read much humor. With that being said, I still resisted the idea of “humor essays” because I never found myself wanting to read a funny book. Luckily I have come to see how essays are actually enjoyable. Why would I spend my free time reading a collection of essays, of all things? Essays were things I had to write for class or struggle to understand for a different class. is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable.There was a time when I saw the word “essays” on the front of a book and avoided it at all costs. 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.

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. “Stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny.” -Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror

A rip-roaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays from the New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction Award Winner.

Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby