We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

'Irby might be our great bard of quarantine.' - New York Times

Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire.

With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., "bitches gotta eat" blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form. Whether talking about an ill-fated pilgrimage to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes to awkward sexual encounters to the world's first completely honest job application, and more, she's as deft at poking fun at the ghosts of her past self as she is at capturing powerful emotional truths.

'I cannot remember the last time I was so moved by a book. As close to perfect as an essay collection can get.' - Roxane Gay, best-selling author of Bad Feminist

'Samantha Irby is stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny.' - Jia Tolentino