Samantha Irby

Arts & Culture, Books Issue Jul 21, 2020
25 local books to stock your shelves

Add these new reads by and about Chicagoans to your list.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Books Issue, Chicago authors, Dmitry Samarov, Sahar Mustafah, Joe Meno, Gabriel Bump, Rae Linda Brown, Mikki Kendall, Miles Harvey, Michael Zapata, Catherine Lacey, Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law, John D'Emilio, Sonali Dev, Catherine Adel West, Rosanna Warren, Marisel Vera, Erik Gelman, Samantha Irby, Natasha Trethewey, Daniel Kraus, George A. Romero, Kathleen Rooney, Nate Marshall, Jason Diamond, Maryse Meijer, Rena Barron, Riva Lehrer

Arts & Culture, Fall Theater and Dance Sep 11, 2019
Live lit keeps the story circles unbroken

As Write Club turns ten, founder Ian Belknap looks at the current state of the art in Chicago.
- By Ian Belknap
- Tags: Fall Theater and Dance, Ian Belknap, Write Club, Keith Ecker, Essay Fiesta, Christopher Piatt, Samantha Irby, Lily Be, Janna Sobel, Jeremy Owens, Shannon Cason

Blogs, Bleader Nov 2, 2018
What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival last night

The best way to get over a breakup, according to Abbi Jacobson, is to go on a three-week solo road trip and publish a book about it.
- By Marissa De La Cerda
- Tags: Arts, Books, Comedy, Lit & Lectures, Abbi Jacobson, Samantha Irby, Chicago Humanities Festival 2018, I Might Regret This, Broad City

Blogs, Bleader Oct 11, 2017
Nasty Women attempts to sum up what it's like to be a feminist in Trump’s America

The new essay collection includes contributions from Cheryl Strayed, Samantha Irby, Jessica Valenti, and more.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Arts, Books, The Trump Era, Gender Issues, Nasty Women, Kate Harding, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Sarah Hollenbeck, Samantha Irby, essay collection, Cheryl Strayed, Jessica Valenti, Alicia Garza, Nicole Chung

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Jul 26, 2017
Megan Stielstra interviewing Samantha Irby: The right way to meet in real life

Two rising literary stars talk shop on the occasion of their new books.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Lit Feature, Megan Stielstra, Samantha Irby, Kalamazoo, Once I Was Cool, Curbside Splendor, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, The Wrong Way to Save Your Life, New York Times, Kirsten Jennings, Abbi Jacobson, Jessi Klein, Northwestern University, Michigan, writing, gender politics

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Jun 6, 2017
What to check out at Printers Row 2017

Everything that’s free at the annual fest (except Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Al Franken)
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Lit Feature, Printers Row Lit Fest, Printers Row 2017, Chicago Tribune, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Senator Al Franken, Jason Diamond, Ben Tanzer, Rita Dove, Mary Schmich, Samantha Irby, Scaachi Koul, Jenny Allen, Emil Ferris, Christopher Borrelli, Ibram X. Kendi, Scott Turow, Our Miss Brooks 100, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Patricia Smith, Anupy Singla, Rick Bayless, Megan Abbott, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Amy Dickinson, E. Jason Wambsgans, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Daniel Kraus, Luvvie Ajayi, Lolly Bowean, 826CHI, Osama Alomar, Christine Sneed, Janet Mock, Mayte Garcia, The First Time, Joe Meno, Freda Love Smith, Britt Julious, Scott Smith, Irvine Welsh, Heather Ann Smith, Dana Cree, Allegra Goodman, Jane Hamilton, Ann Leary

Arts & Culture, Summer Guide May 17, 2017
A beach read doesn’t have to be as light and fluffy as the sand

Add some weight to your summer lit list with new books by Chicago-based or Chicago-adjacent authors.
- By Laura Pearson
- Tags: Summer Guide, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Samantha Irby, The Answers, Catherine Lacey, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Roxane Gay, Turf, Elizabeth Crane, The Grip of It, Jac Jemc, Eat Only When You’re Hungry, Lindsay Hunter, summer guide 2017, lit, beach reads

Blogs, Bleader Sep 30, 2016
FX is developing Samantha Irby’s memoir Meaty

Along with Abbi Jacobson and Jessi Klein, the former Chicagoan is turning her life story into a comedy series.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Books, Comedy, Television, Samantha Irby, Abbi Jacobson, Jessi Klein, Meaty, Bitches Gotta Eat, FX

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 3, 2016
Fall's best lit-related events

The Chicago Humanities Fest, Algren: A Life, and more.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Fall Preview, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Logan Center for the Arts, Jonathan Safran Foer, Music Box Theatre, Ann Patchett, Nerdette Podcast, First Evangelical Free Church, Abbi Jacobson, Samantha Irby, Women and Children First, Senn High School, Chicago Humanities Fest, Zadie Smith, DuSable Museum of African American History, Out of the Wreck I Rise: A Literary Companion to Recovery, Neil Steinberg, Sara Bader, Poetry Foundation, The Virginity of Famous Men, Christine Sneed, Gina Frangello, Mary Wisniewski, Bill Savage, Algren: A Life, Sweet Sugar, Sultry Spice, Malika Ameen, Read It & Eat, NaNoWriMo, Volumes Bookcafe

Arts & Culture, Book Review Dec 15, 2014
Recommended
In Bare-Knuckled Lit, Write Club's greatest hits pack a wallop

A new book assembles the punchiest essays from the national live-lit event that was founded in Chicago.
- By Janet Potter
- Tags: Book Review, Bare-Knuckled Lit: The Best of Write Club, Ian Belknap, Lindsay Muscato, Hope and Nonthings, Neo-Futurists, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, Samantha Irby, Colin Iago McCarthy, Mike O'Connell, live lit, Bare-Knuckled Lit, Recommended

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
Readers' Poll
Best nonfiction writer

Samantha Irby
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2014, best nonfiction writer, Samantha Irby, Alex Kotlowitz, Readers' Poll

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Jun 1, 2014
Printers Row Lit Fest preview

In its 30th year, the weekend festival brings hundreds of authors and booksellers to the South Loop.
- By Taylor Tolbert
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Printers Row Lit Fest, Chicago Tribune, Stuart Dybek, Harold Washington Literary Award, Bette Cerf Hill, Mary Davis Fournier, American Library Association, Dave Eggers, Even a Lion Can Get Lost in the Jungle, Kiss the Girls, Along Came a Spider, James Patterson, Chicago Tribune Young Adult Literary Award, Mark Bazer, Interview Show, Hideout, Colson Whitehead, Noble Hustle, Second City, John Hughes, the Breakfast Club, Bobby Biedrzycki,, Sahar Mustafah, Coya Paz, Megan Stielstra, Once I Was Cool, Chris Abani, The Secret History of Las Vegas, Jeffery Renard Allen, Song of the Shank, Bill Hillmann, The Old Neighborhood, Cristina Henriquez, The Book of Unknown Americans, Samantha Irby, Legs McNeil, Dear Nobody, Sara Paretsky, Critical Mass, Peggy Shinner

Blogs, Bleader Jan 5, 2014
Reader's Agenda Sun 1/5: Too Much Light, Here's the Story, and Sam Prekop

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, January 5
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, Neo-Futurists, Neo-Futurarium, Here's the Story, Stage 773, potluck, Rahmaan Statik Barnes, Angela Oliver, Don Hall, Katie Liesener, Samantha Irby, Sam Prekop, Empty Bottle, Hausu Mountain

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Sep 23, 2013
Bitches gotta write

As the author of the hyperpopular blog Bitches Gotta Eat, Samantha Irby uses humor—harshly, grossly, exquisitely—to get at serious issues: race, gender, loneliness. Her next volley? A new book.
- By Marya Hornbacher
- Tags: Lit Feature, Samantha Irby, books, essays, blogs, Bitches Gotta Eat, bitchesgottaeat.blogspot.com, bloggers, writers, Curbside Splendor, live-lit shows, Ian Belknap, Keith Ecker, humor, wit, eating, farting, masturbation, sex, Crohn's disease, race, gender, sexuality, loneliness, Rogers Park, comedy, MySpace

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 12, 2013
A peek into Chicago's thriving live-lit scene

"It's the concentration on trying to achieve a universal truth that I find most appealing about this form."
- By Marya Hornbacher
- Tags: Fall Preview, Fall Rts, Welcome to PleasureTown, Ian Belknap, Dana Norris, Keith Ecker, Shannon Cason, Don Hall, Jen Bosworth, the Moth, Story Club, Samantha Irby, Guts & Glory

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 20, 2013
Readers' Poll
Best Nonfiction Writer

Samantha Irby
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2013, Samantha Irby, Alex Kotlowitz, Readers' Poll

Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 20, 2013
Readers' Poll
Best New Nonfiction Book by a Chicagoan

Meaty by Samantha Irby
- Tags: Arts & Culture, Best of Chicago 2013, Samantha Irby, Meaty, The Third Coast, Thomas Dyja, Readers' Poll

Blogs, Bleader Aug 1, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Wed 8/1

What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, August 1, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Buddy Guy, South Loop, Toronzo Cannon, the Cannonball Express, John Ford, The Iron Horse, University of Chicago, Doc Films Sheffield, Lakeview, RUI: Reading Under the Influence, Samantha Irby, Patrick Wensink

Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Jun 12, 2012
Video
This week's Culture Vultures recommend:

A fish story, Grown Folks Stories, and Prometheus
- By Kelsey Gee and Joe Valdez
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Ben Fasman, Corey Arnold, Fish-Work, Bering Sea, Samantha Irby, Bitches Gotta Eat, Grown Folks Stories, Demetri Kovalis, Charlize Theron, Big Star, Patio Theater, Video

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Add these new reads by and about Chicagoans to your list.

As Write Club turns ten, founder Ian Belknap looks at the current state of the art in Chicago.

The best way to get over a breakup, according to Abbi Jacobson, is to go on a three-week solo road trip and publish a book about it.

The new essay collection includes contributions from Cheryl Strayed, Samantha Irby, Jessica Valenti, and more.

Two rising literary stars talk shop on the occasion of their new books.

Everything that’s free at the annual fest (except Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Al Franken)

Add some weight to your summer lit list with new books by Chicago-based or Chicago-adjacent authors.

Along with Abbi Jacobson and Jessi Klein, the former Chicagoan is turning her life story into a comedy series.

The Chicago Humanities Fest, Algren: A Life, and more.

A new book assembles the punchiest essays from the national live-lit event that was founded in Chicago.

Samantha Irby

In its 30th year, the weekend festival brings hundreds of authors and booksellers to the South Loop.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, January 5

As the author of the hyperpopular blog Bitches Gotta Eat, Samantha Irby uses humor—harshly, grossly, exquisitely—to get at serious issues: race, gender, loneliness. Her next volley? A new book.

"It's the concentration on trying to achieve a universal truth that I find most appealing about this form."

Samantha Irby

Meaty by Samantha Irby

What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, August 1, 2012

A fish story, Grown Folks Stories, and Prometheus

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