Podcasts about bitches gotta eat

1. Sam's life-changing strategies for (reluctantly) interacting with humans. 2. How we use humor to hide the lava of rage churning beneath our surface. 3. Sam's friendship theory and why she doesn't need a deep soul connection with every “lowercase f friend.” 4. Sam's embrace of JOMO (Joy of Missing Out)–and why she genuinely believes no one else is having a better time (except maybe Abby). 5. The behind-the-scenes story of the “Fat Babe Pool Party” Shrill show–and why that episode was one of the most important things she's ever written. About Samantha: Samantha Irby writes the "Bitches Gotta Eat" blog, and is the author of WOW, NO THANK YOU; WE ARE NEVER MEETING IN REAL LIFE; and MEATY. She has been a writer and/or co-producer for TV shows including And Just Like That, Work in Progress, Shrill, and Tuca & Bertie. IG: ⁠@bitchesgottaeat To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

1. Sam's life-changing strategies for (reluctantly) interacting with humans. 2. How we use humor to hide the lava of rage churning beneath our surface. 3. Sam's friendship theory and why she doesn't need a deep soul connection with every “lowercase f friend.” 4. Sam's embrace of JOMO (Joy of Missing Out)–and why she genuinely believes no one else is having a better time (except maybe Abby). 5. The behind-the-scenes story of the “Fat Babe Pool Party” Shrill show–and why that episode was one of the most important things she's ever written. About Samantha: Samantha Irby writes the "Bitches Gotta Eat" blog, and is the author of WOW, NO THANK YOU; WE ARE NEVER MEETING IN REAL LIFE; and MEATY. She has been a writer and/or co-producer for TV shows including And Just Like That, Work in Progress, Shrill, and Tuca & Bertie. IG: @bitchesgottaeat To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

SAMANTHA IRBY IS HERE! Samantha Irby is truly one of the greatest living comedic writers and if you haven't read her work, I implore you. I love her work so much, I even gave it to my therapist. The funniest people often have had the greatest losses and Samantha is no exception having lost both of her parents amongst other tragedies which she so poignantly and hilariously writes about. Samantha's books include We Are Never Meeting in Real Life; Meaty; New Year, Same Trash; Wow, No Thank You; and Quietly Hostile and has been on the NYT Best Sellers list multiple times. Additionally, she has written episodes of Shrill, Sex and The City and Tuca & Bertie and writes the brilliant Bitches Gotta Eat. * Buy Quietly Hostile, Irby's latest book Subscribe to bitchesgottaeat * School of THOT (train your body and mind with Stasia Patwell)

Samantha Irby is not as hostile as she might like us to think, quietly or otherwise. What she is is brutally and hilariously honest. Fierce and foul-mouthed, Sam joins us to talk about why it's ok not to like your body … How she's not responsible for killing Big on And Just Like That, but did help expedite his demise (send your outraged emails to us, not her). Also: how to be a decent stepparent, what she keeps in her purse, and her crazy pandemic Chihuahua. Oh, and the world's best moisturizer. The New York Times calls Samantha Irby “a side-splitting polemicist for the most awful situations”. A blogger, writer and television writer, Sam has published five books, including her latest, Quietly Hostile, which she describes as a survival guide (of sorts). Her essay collection Wow, No Thank You won the Lambda Literary Award in 2021. Subscribe to Samantha Irby on Substack where she publishes Bitches Gotta Eat. We have a new sponsor! Embark is owned by a not-for-profit foundation, and they only do education planning and savings. They are passionate about helping students reach their full potential. The Embark Student Plan is a registered education savings plan (RESP) that supports your child's journey to and through post-secondary education. Start an account using the promo code REPUTE100 and we'll contribute $100. You can watch this episode on our YouTube channel. A transcription of this episode is available here. We love writing and would love for you to read what we write. Sign Up for our Substack Newsletter. If you would like to support the show, we do have partner opportunities available. Please email Wendy and Maureen at womenofir@gmail.com We now have a YouTube Channel! Please hit the Subscribe button when you get there. And because you asked for it - Future episodes will be in video form. https://www.youtube.com/@WomenofIllRepute Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Samantha Irby is the bestselling author of the essay collection Quietly Hostile, available from Vintage. Irby's other books include Meaty, Wow, No Thank You, and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. She also writes for television, having worked on shows like Shrill, And Just Like That, and Tuca & Bertie. She blogs at Bitches Gotta Eat and lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  YouTube TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Samantha Irby writes a newsletter called Bitches Gotta Eat. Her favorite duet is Patti Labelle and Michael Mcdonald's “On My Own.” Marlee Grace is a dancer and writer whose work focuses on the self, devotion, ritual, creativity, and art making. Their practice is rooted in improvisation as a compositional form that takes shape in movement videos, books, quilting, online courses, and hosting artists. Grace's Instagram dance project Personal Practice has been featured in the New York Times, Dance Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, and more. They have a newsletter that comes out every Monday called Monday Monday. Sometimes it comes out on different days but usually it comes out on Monday. It's always free. If you love it and want to also read the monthly advice column YES YES you become a paid subscriber. Marlee's most recent book is Getting to Center: Pathways to Finding Yourself Within the Great Unknown. They also wrote the book How to Not Always Be Working. Their favorite duet is “Dilemma” with Nelly and Kelly Rowland. Weekend Intensive: Mending With Gold December 9-11, 2022 Join KTC's co-directors for a virtual weekend intensive with a concentrated and highly personalized curriculum designed to support care workers*. We hope to challenge the unrealistic expectations of the care work industrial complex, nurture pathways for reconnecting with pleasure and develop enlivening professional practices/strategies. Enrolling Spring 2023: The Embodied Private Practice Cohort is a year-long mentorship offering for clinicians who are beginning or revisioning private practice with a focus on embodiment and sustainability. Combining reality-based, capacity-conscious clinical and business consultation, mentorship will focus on the ways that therapists can be nurtured by clinical practice, avoid burnout, and commit to sustainability, self care and healing. $$Support$$ Living in this Queer Body Podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asher-pandjiris/message

1. Sam's life-changing strategies for (reluctantly) interacting with humans. 2. How we use humor to hide the lava of rage churning beneath our surface. 3. Sam's friendship theory and why she doesn't need a deep soul connection with every “lowercase f friend.” 4. Sam's embrace of JOMO (Joy of Missing Out)–and why she genuinely believes no one else is having a better time (except maybe Abby). 5. The behind-the-scenes story of the “Fat Babe Pool Party” Shrill show–and why that episode was one of the most important things she's ever written. About Samantha: Samantha Irby writes the "Bitches Gotta Eat" blog, and is the author of WOW, NO THANK YOU; WE ARE NEVER MEETING IN REAL LIFE; and MEATY. She has been a writer and/or co-producer for TV shows including And Just Like That, Work in Progress, Shrill, and Tuca & Bertie. IG: @bitchesgottaeat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At first blush, by trajectory and style, Samantha Irby may seem like a remnant of the personal essay boom. She’s unabashedly frank, sometimes unsavory, and often revelatory. In her new essay “Hysterical!,” the 40-year-old writer details her relationship to menstruation and her subsequent hysterectomy, writing, “Here is a list of things I would rather do than carry a human to term in my battered uterus... take a soupy diarrhea shit in the middle of the floor in a public place, then eat it.” Critic Parul Sehgal described Irby’s place in the literary canon for The New York Times, writing, “She understands suffering and uncertainty, and is wildly, seditiously funny on both. Read Irby because she knows what it means to live with a fair amount of panic and largely indoors. ... She might be our great bard of quarantine.” I spoke to Irby on a Friday evening about three weeks ago, after she got home from working in the writer’s room of Showtime’s Work in Progress, a wry, Chicago-based comedy about Abby, a 40-something self-identified “fat, queer dyke” living with depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. (Season 1 premiered in December.) “I feel molded by this place,” she says of Chicago. Her hometown, Evanston, is a northern suburb. “I have so much love for here.” After establishing herself in Chicago’s comedy scene, she moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan, with her wife and stepkids. She misses the city. Irby is candid about her upbringing and being the caretaker for her mother, who had multiple sclerosis. “I grew up in several apartments — let's keep that real — where we never had a phone,” she says. “We moved to one place because it was down the street from the fire department. My mom was very ill, so [I could] walk to the fire department if something happened, which I definitely had to do.” She attempted suicide at 13. Her parents died within six months of each other when Irby was a teenager. She had to drop out of college and, at one point, live out of her car. In light of this, Irby insistently seeks joy in her writing, even when the topics themselves veer heavy. “It's like, why should a person who grew up that way put any more pressure on themselves, other than to have food and housing?” she says. “The rest is just gravy.” Irby is a generous conversationalist, her laugh brimming with energy and freckled with occasional giggles. Like our conversation, her essays have a deceptive, conversational ease. But writing is still work, no matter how smooth the finished project. “There was a time I could write on my lunch break or during the day, but now that I live with people, they have to be asleep before I can really get work done,” she says. “So when I’m on deadline, I wait for everyone to go to bed, and end up working from 9 or 10 p.m. until 3 a.m.” Our conversation shifts from her influences (Fiona Apple, comedian Robin Harris), to her tonal inspiration (comedians Mo'Nique, Paul Mooney, and a dash of David Sedaris), to her love of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She traces her internet lineage back to an early blog, before her more well-known Bitches Gotta Eat. “When I started writing in earnest, I started my blog to convince this dude to date me,” she says. “It worked. I wish I could say I had some noble reason for continuing, but really it’s just this yawning pit of need, and the need for people’s approval.” She writes about living with Crohn’s disease (“So here is the thing about carting around a bowel disease when you actually have to leave your home and do things out in the world: You’re always thinking, ‘What if I have to poop?’”), mistakenly asking a waiter if he’s familiar with her work (“Am I ever going to stop writing the horror movie I have been starring in since the day I was born?”), and reveling in bodily confidence, as demonstrated in her critically acclaimed episode of Hulu’s Shrill. She's keenly aware of both the foibles and graces of the human body, without ever losing her particularly vulgar brand of humor. But what role does humor, and essay writing writ large, serve during a pandemic? How should writers continue on? How do we make sense of the world we live in? Irby's third collection, Wow, No Thank You, debuted at the top of The New York Times bestseller list in March, and while confessional and at times shocking, it's also positioned toward connection. She drives toward relatability, suggesting it as a balm for periods of instability. The first essay of her new book cheekily critiques the celebrity profile by poking fun at the genre’s unattainability. “I grew up on welfare,” she says. “We lived in section 8 housing. I’ve had to spend 20 years getting for myself the things I wasn’t provided. Just once I want to see one [profile] that doesn’t feel like something the reader couldn’t do. I want people to read my books and be like, ‘I could do exactly what that b*tch did.’” She’s equally frank about what keeps her professionally afloat. “I still can only be a writer because I partnered up with someone who will work the steady job,” she says. “I sold a book and paid off all my wife’s debt. The trade is that I can still dick around and she does the clock punching.” Memory and truth in confessional writing are complicated beasts, and confessional prose is a difficult tightrope to walk. “The way we remember things depend[s] on what we want to get out of the situation or how we’d like to retell it in the future,” she says. “But the boundaries are easy to draw when they involve other people. I never want to have a conversation, especially after something is already in print, where someone says, ‘You shared something I would never have wanted you to share.’” In her stories and, often, in her jokes, Irby makes herself the villain — or at least the punching bag. "I'm a depressed person who sees things from a negative prism, so I usually don't demonize anyone other than myself in my stories," she says. Irby was never shamed for being depressed growing up, although she didn’t have access to treatment. She’s aware of how limited and limiting conversations about mental health have been in the black community. So when she dedicates the book to the antidepressant Wellbutrin, she’s again balancing her pull toward humor with a gimlet-eyed nod to how she, and many others, make it through the day. “My approach to things is just talking — about the Crohn’s or anything else,” she says. “There’s a freedom in talking about it. I feel deep shame all the time, just living on this planet. The more I talk about it, the less shameful it feels.” Does Irby feel shame over anything she’s written? Is that the marker of moving beyond the tell-all essay, the ability to break away from our natural tendencies?

Hi friends! We are off this week and will be replaying some of our favorite Forever35 episodes. Next up: Samantha Irby, from August, 2018! This week, Kate discusses her years-long love of Phish while Doree’s digs deep into Poldark and starting a new gym routine. Then they reveal their favorite skincare and makeup products of the moment, including a facial sponge that's changing Kate's life and Doree's new brow pencil obsession. Later, Kate and Doree talk to the hilarious Samantha Irby, NY Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting In Real Life and Meaty, and creator of the blog Bitches Gotta Eat. Samantha talks about her unlikely road to becoming a writer, dealing with anxiety in a thriving career, and how she can't stop buying candles. Follow Samantha @wordscience on Twitter and @bitchesgottaeat on Instagram.To leave a voicemail for a future mini-ep, call 781-591-0390. You can also email the podcast at forever35podcast@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram and join the Forever35 Facebook Group (Password: Serums).This episode is sponsored by:Buffy - For $20 off a comforter visit buffy.co and enter promo code F35 at checkout.Bombas - For 20% off your first purchase of Bombas, visit bombas.com/forever35.LiquidIV - Get 25% off at liquidiv.com when you use our code FOREVER35 at checkout.Thrive Causemetics - Go to ThriveCausemetics.com/FOREVER35 and use code FOREVER35 for 15% off your first purchase!StitchFix - Get started today at stitchfix.com/forever35 and you'll get an extra 25% off when you keep all items in your box. StoryWorth - For $20 off, visit storyworth.com/forever35.Theme music by Riot. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week Kate discusses her years-long love of Phish, while Doree digs deep into Poldark and starts a new gym routine. They also reveal their favorite skincare and makeup products of the moment, including a facial sponge that's changing Kate's life and Doree's new brow pencil obsession. Then they chat with Samantha Irby, NY Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting In Real Life and Meaty, and creator of the blog Bitches Gotta Eat. Samantha talks about her unlikely road to becoming a writer, dealing with anxiety in a thriving career, her favorite cream blush, and how she can't stop buying candles. Follow Samantha: @wordscience on Twitter and @bitchesgottaeat on Instagram.This episode is sponsored by:Thrive Market – Visit ThriveMarket.com/Forever35 for $20 off your first 3 orders of $49 or more + free shipping.Simple Contacts – Visit SimpleContacts.com/Forever or enter promo code Forever at check to get $20 off your first order.Kneipp – For 15% off your first order, go to Kneipp.com and use the promo code Forever35 at checkout.Masterclass – Get a free 7-day trial when you go to Masterclass.com/Forever35.Theme music by Riot. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 73 has a deep flavor profile. First off, Paula had quite the experience getting back to DC from NYC on the Bolt Bus. Demi Lovato relapsed and we love her even more, if that's even possible. Katherine McPhee and David Foster are engaged and the ladies have feelings. The Make Up Minute recommendations are Lush bar shampoo and NYX eyeshadow primer. The FUS is Newport Nancy. The Feminist Forum is the garbage fire of Feminist Apparel. The Fatphobic Disaster is Sam Smith. (UGH.) Paula revisits Jess Baker's concept of body currency. The Body Politics win goes to Khloe K who says not stupid things about her body! Yay Koko. Recommendations are Samantha Irby of Bitches Gotta Eat and Dax Shepherd's podcast.

This week we chatted with Samantha Irby, comedian, writer, the mastermind behind the blog “Bitches Gotta Eat” and the author of the new collection of essays “We Are Never Meeting in Real Life,” as well as the collection “Meaty.” We crowned her as the voice of her generation, talked marriage and the Bachelorette, and found out why she dedicated her book to Klonopin. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Samantha Irby is a comedienne and memoirist, and a decidedly unique voice in contemporary African American literature. Her fresh, honest brand of humor first came to the attention of readers through her immensely popular blog Bitches Gotta Eat. Irby’s bestselling essay collection, Meaty (2013), adapts and expands her most popular blog entries – and adds […]

Samantha Irby is a comedienne and memoirist, and a decidedly unique voice in contemporary African American literature. Her fresh, honest brand of humor first came to the attention of readers through her immensely popular blog Bitches Gotta Eat. Irby’s bestselling essay collection, Meaty (2013), adapts and expands her most popular blog entries – and adds some new ones, to boot. […]

Irby’s sharp and earthy debut collection of essays, now reissued, marked the arrival of a seriously talented and transgressive feminist humorist, one who’s risen into the stratosphere in the wake of last year’s We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. Five years later, these pieces still pack a punch and draw as many laughs as they did the first time around. From failed relationships to tacos to Crohn’s disease, Irby treats everything with the candor and irreverence that keeps people so addicted to her “Bitches Gotta Eat” blog.https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9780525436164Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Samantha Irby's essays (some of which originated from her popular blog Bitches Gotta Eat) are both hilarious and moving. As she's working on producing an FX series based on her work, we talk to Irby about her new, best-selling collection of essays, WE ARE NEVER MEETING IN REAL LIFE. And who says long-haul truckers cant be writers too? Finn Murphy's new memoir THE LONG HAUL is a fascinating glimpse into life on the American road. And our senior editors call in with recommendations about which bestsellers are worth your time.

This week we chatted with Samantha Irby, comedian, writer, the mastermind behind the blog “Bitches Gotta Eat” and the author of the new collection of essays “We Are Never Meeting in Real Life,” as well as the collection “Meaty.” We crowned her as the voice of her generation, talked marriage and the Bachelorette, and found out why she dedicated her book to Klonopin. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Has anyone ever teased you about your size? On today’s episode, we talk all about fat shaming—and we hear from two amazing writers who try not to internalize all the messages about the importance of being skinny. First up, writer Lindy West, author of the book Shrill and many pieces about body image, including one for The Stranger called “Hello, I Am Fat.” Then Maddie interviews Samantha Irby, who writes the blog Bitches Gotta Eat, and has a hilarious new collection of essays called We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

The writer discusses her new memoir, "Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman," how she perseveres against the meanest of internet trolls, and why she's totally comfortable calling herself the F-word. The Women Promoted on this Episode: "Samantha Irby has a blog called Bitches Gotta Eat, and she has a book called Meaty,” says Lindy. “I just love her so much. I feel like people sometimes call my work ‘vulnerable and brave,' and she just makes me feel like a coward and a liar, you know? She's so candid about things that I would just never touch, and then she writes about them in ways that are so funny and relatable and smart. Then I'm just like, ‘Oh, why was I afraid? Why was I afraid to talk about that?'” Follow These Women on Twitter: Women's Health: @womenshealthmag Caitlin Abber: @everydaycaitlin Lindy West: @thelindywest Episode Credits: Uninterrupted is produced by Caitlin Abber, with audio production by Paul Ruest at Argot Studios. Editorial and public relations was provided by Lisa Chudnofsky. Our theme music is “Bullshit” by Jen Miller.

Full Body Frequency, Episode 5: SAMANTHA "SAM" IRBY Sam is the author of the critically acclaimed MEATY and creator of the cult-followed and hilarious BITCHES GOTTA EAT blog. Both her book and blog offer an intimate look at this plus-size writer's adventures in dating, eating and drinking, Crohn's disease, and being a woman with a serious appetite for life. BRIAN DUNCAN This internationally renowned wine and fine dining expert is a four time James Beard Foundation Award nominee in the national “Outstanding Wine Service” category. He shares his latest business venture, Down to Earth Wine Concepts; talks Harlem Eat Up!; and offers a taste of his spring wine picks. Wine novice? No worries. Brian's got you covered! LORI PARRETT This former high school teacher turned pastry chef and Food Network competitor is the owner of CakeWalk Chicago, a retail and online baking and cake decorating supply boutique, and a beekeeper. She shares her career journey along with two delicious spring desserts that you can make at home. Yes, this show is all about preparing your palates for the best food and wine spring has to offer.

Full Body Frequency, Episode 5: SAMANTHA "SAM" IRBY Sam is the author of the critically acclaimed MEATY and creator of the cult-followed and hilarious BITCHES GOTTA EAT blog. Both her book and blog offer an intimate look at this plus-size writer’s adventures in dating, eating and drinking, Crohn’s disease, and being a woman with a serious appetite for life. BRIAN DUNCAN This internationally renowned wine and fine dining expert is a four time James Beard Foundation Award nominee in the national “Outstanding Wine Service” category. He shares his latest business venture, Down to Earth Wine Concepts; talks Harlem Eat Up!; and offers a taste of his spring wine picks. Wine novice? No worries. Brian’s got you covered! LORI PARRETT This former high school teacher turned pastry chef and Food Network competitor is the owner of CakeWalk Chicago, a retail and online baking and cake decorating supply boutique, and a beekeeper. She shares her career journey along with two delicious spring desserts that you can make at home. Yes, this show is all about preparing your palates for the best food and wine spring has to offer.