Samantha Irby Thinks Most People Suck But She Still Wants to Be Your Friend

New York Times best-selling author Samantha Irby may have become a household name (in certain households, anyway) following the massive success of her 2017 essay collection, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, but I fell in love with her hilariously funny and shamelessly honest work on her blog, Bitches Gotta Eat, back in 2013. […] The post Samantha Irby Thinks Most People Suck But She Still Wants to Be Your Friend appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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TIME Names New Sales, Marketing Leads | People on the Move

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