This is fresh air, I'm Terry Gross.

Our new co-host, Tanya Mosley, has today's interview.

It's a lot of fun.

Here's Tanya to introduce it.

Author Samantha Erby has made a living

writing about the stuff we all think about,

but rarely say out loud.

From our daily biological functions,

to the New Year's resolutions we dilute ourselves

into thinking we'll keep, Erby delves into a new set

of funny situations in her latest collection of essays

called Quietly Hostel.

In it, she takes us through her rise

as a Hollywood TV show writer.

The trials of getting turned away at swanky restaurants

for not dressing hip enough, to almost

getting a popular cable network to turn her first book

into a TV show.

The operative word being almost.

As a self-described, high-functioning, anxious

and depressed person, Erby also gives us

plenty to laugh about with her stories about domesticated life,

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