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Meaty : essays

Title
Meaty : essays / by Samantha Irby.
Author
Irby, Samantha,
Publication
New York : Vintage Books, [2018] ©2013

Details

Description
xvi, 252 pages; 20 cm
Summary
"The widely beloved, uproarious, first essay collection and the basis for the upcoming FX Studios series from smart, edgy, hilarious, and unabashedly raunchy Samantha Irby. Samantha Irby exploded onto the printed page with this debut collection of essaysabout trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease, and more. Every essay is crafted with the same scathing wit and poignant candor thousands of loyal readers have come to expect from visiting her notoriously hilarious blog, bitchesgottaeat.com"--
Uniform Title
Essays. Selections
Alternative Title
Essays.
Subject
  • African American comedians > 21st century > Biography
  • African American women authors > 21st century > Biography
  • American wit and humor
  • Authors, American > 21st century > Biography
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  • Bloggers > United States > Biography
  • Comedians > United States > Biography
  • HUMOR / Form / Essays
  • Irby, Samantha
  • LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
Contents
Part 1: Brunch: An Instagram Frittata. At Thirty -- Awkward First Date -- I Want to Write Your Mom's Match.com Profile -- My Mother, My Daughter -- The Triplets -- This Is Why I'm Poor -- Skin Rashes and Arthritis -- The Tapeworm Diet -- I Want to Put a Fat Bitch on Network Television -- Part 2: Good (Food) in Bed: Having Diarrhea All the Time Is the Worst. Milk and Oreos -- Black Beauty -- The Many Varieties of Hospital Broth -- The Terror of Love -- Sorry I Shit on Your Dick -- How to Get Your Disgusting Meat Carcass Ready for Some New, Hot Sex -- Massive Wet Asses -- Part 3: Dinner on the Couch. Forest Whitaker's Neck -- Bitches Are My Jam -- A Bearded Gentleman -- Would Dying Alone Really Be So Terrible? -- I Really Don't Eat This Much Salad! -- Thumbsucker -- I Should Have a Car with Power Windows by Now -- End: Ooh, Dessert. And Cocktails!.
ISBN
  • 9780525436164
  • 0525436162
LCCN
2018001937
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