92Y@Home: Samantha Irby in Conversation with Entertainment Weekly's David Canfield

Mar 31, 2020

Watch Samantha Irby in conversation with David Canfield on March 31, premiering at 5 pm ET

Samantha Irby is the funniest essayist around right now.

The author dubbed a “sidesplitting polemicist for the most awful situations” by The New York Times is back with the biting new collection, Wow, No Thank You, interrogating life’s most ridiculous mundanities in hilarious—and, suddenly, rather prescient—fashion. Don’t miss Samantha Irby (Meaty, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life) as she talks with Entertainment Weekly’s David Canfield about her third book, the road to best-selling success, breaking into Hollywood, and how she’s dealing with widespread orders to socially isolate and stay home. (Trust us, she’s kind of an expert.)

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