![]() ![]() ![]() Now that you’ve been married about a year, have you made any sacrifices you hadn’t considered when you wrote the book, or changed in any way you hadn’t foreseen? You’re sort of hellbent on keeping your lifestyle, maintaining those guilty pleasures. And so much of it is about your ideal relationship. ![]() It ends at the cusp of getting married and moving to Michigan-the book is about your growing up in a lot of ways. The book is about a very specific transition in your life. While you’re at it, grab tickets to see Irby at her book release party on June 8. We caught up with the notorious over-sharer and Chicago live lit scene vet in anticipation of the new release (available May 30). Irby has grown up, yes, but that doesn’t mean she’s above diarrhea talk. If Meaty (2013) is a celebration of the lifestyle singlehood can afford, then We Are Never Meeting In Real Life (2017) grapples with the compromises one makes-or, more importantly, the compromises one refuses to make-in a serious relationship. Since the success of her first essay collection, the Evanston native has fallen in love, gotten married, become a step-mom and moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan. Sam Irby is becoming a new Sam Irby-sort of. ![]()
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