![]() ![]() Take, for example, her two-page vignette called "I Like to Get High at Night and Think About Whales." The title is practically as long as the essay itself. ![]() Luckily for the reader, she never wallows in loathing, self- or otherwise. ![]() By her own admission, she's lousy with money, she sounds like an idiot on podcasts, and she is more apt to down a six-pack of Diet Coke on any given day before she touches a glass of water. In her fourth collection of essays, Quietly Hostile, the bestselling author and television writer renews her love/hate vows with the human race - as well as her relationship with her own flaws and failings. But being human herself, she also trains her most critical - and most cynical - eye inward. Yes, Irby loves to observe her fellow humans. ![]() That is to say, she's a person who is fascinated by people - their obsessions, their hypocrisies, even the things they weirdly reveal about themselves in their anonymous, online product reviews. ![]()
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