I love this book. I have listened to the audio version of We Are Never Meeting In Real Life and Irby’s previous memoir, Meaty, at least three times each. Like Jenny Lawson’s Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (which I also re-read this year), I have large chunks memorized but I keep returning to it. Irby’s sense of humor and her voice (it’s this weird combination of rasp and Valley Girl and I could listen to it all day) are a perfect combination. “You know, what I […]

I’m not sure how I stumbled across We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. I hadn’t heard of Samantha Irby or her blog, “Bitches Gotta Eat”, before picking up the book, but the title and adorably annoyed kitten on the cover called to my inner crank. And in this particular case, the essays delivered on the cover’s promise. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life tackles a broad range of topics from love, sex, family, pets, pain, the Bachelorette, money, and Civil War reenactments with a sharp […]