She was born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1980, and her writing is lithe like the old-head Chicago stepping she hopes to do as a borderline Gen Xer, and is rife with the terminology of the millennial internet. When she’s not writing daily recaps of Judge Mathis for her newsletter subscribers, she’s crafting acerbic, referential essays about the complexities of modern life in the jargon of the internet and what she calls her “Midwest drawl.” As such, Irby’s prose does a grapevine dance between the two generations that the author, now age forty, belongs to. That phrase is just the kind of joke she’d make about herself or would use to title one of her books. (which came out March 31, 2020), she’s wearing a black sweatshirt with the words hysterical female printed in bold white type. I n the author photo that accompanies Samantha Irby’s new collection of essays, Wow, No Thank You.
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