I wonder if it's OK if I read this part of the essay. SUMMERS: It is about the complexity of feeding your spouse's kids. SUMMERS: OK, so I have to tell you - you put into words in this book something that I think a lot about all the time but I have never heard anybody articulate before. So I'm looking forward to apparently the complete lobotomy that happens when you wake up on your 50th birthday. But I hear that 50 is when you start to feel comfortable with yourself and, like, assured of your place in the world. That didn't happen for me, and it didn't happen for me at 40. So aging - the indignity of it - I've already been prepared for, right? You know how everyone's like, you know, when you hit 30, you're going to feel good about yourself. And I have some arthritis that is associated with the Crohn's disease, and I always just feel like a nightmare. IRBY: I think my body - like, I have Crohn's disease. SUMMERS: You do write in this really funny and really spot-on way about aging.
I do make it all funny, but I also kind of, like, revel in the grossness. It's a lot of bathroom stuff that's funny. And I think, you know, people are like, oh, no, they're not - no, no, no. IRBY: OK, I like to warn people who haven't read my books before that they are disgusting. And I asked Irby to describe her writing for those who might not be familiar. SUMMERS: Super polite but quietly hostile is how Samantha Irby describes herself in her newest book, also titled "Quietly Hostile." It's her fourth collection of essays in a career that's taken her from blogger to bestselling author to writing for Hollywood shows including the "Sex And The City" revival and "Just Like That." Irby's new book touches on that show, but also relationships, Dave Matthews Band deep cuts and some very personal anecdotes. IRBY: So, you know, by - not osmosis, by whatever - the transitive property, I want to be like you. I promise you - these are the people I grew up wanting to be like. IRBY: It is absolutely a compliment that, like, every Prius in Evanston, Ill., has NPR on (laughter) all the time. SUMMERS: I think it's a compliment that your friends' parents are listening to NPR. SAMANTHA IRBY: Like, all my friends' parents are going to be so excited (laughter). Samantha Irby is an essayist and humorist - the latter of which was painfully obvious when we started chatting.
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