- African American women authors, African American comedians, Biography, American wit and humor
"Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page with her debut collection of brand-new essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, being black, 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"--Page 4 of cover.
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Contemporary, comic, spare and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Samantha Irby
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Vintage, Curbside Splendor Publishing, Faber & Faber, Limited
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571349845
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Samantha Irby is an American comedian, writer and actor.
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