Nuggets of Humor

There’s no subject too taboo for humor author Samantha Irby. From her Bitches Gotta Eat blog where she started writing to her three essay collections, Irby has told real-life stories about everything from her tribulations with Crohn’s disease to easing into middle age. Readers praise her writing for its relatability and constant LOL moments.

When Irby’s third book Wow, No

Thank You released in March 2020 from Knopf, she had a phone conversation with WD about the new release.

As a writer, how do you overcome feelings of self-doubt?

My way of flipping that on its head is to remind myself that there are people who like [my writing] and that it is serving a specific purpose of making people who like it laugh. You know how some people are like, “I want to reach people who aren’t my target audience?” I , I want to keep preaching to the same choir and finding people who are like, “This diarrhea humor resonates with me.” My way of getting over doubt is to be like “You have a lane and you stay in it and you are good