Unabridged: The Chicago Live Show with Samantha Irby

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Arts, Society & Culture, Books, Literature

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

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This episode of The Stacks Unabridged features audio from our Chicago show on the Live in The Stacks tour. Humorist, TV writer and author Samantha Irby joins to talk about her new book Quietly Hostile: Essays. We also discuss books we love, books we hate and Hunter Biden's memoir. This is an edited version of the live show, so if you want more, come join us on tour! Get your tickets here.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Stacks Unabridged, which is the Stacks
0:05.5	Podcast Bonus Episode. These are available for members of the Stacks Pack. And if you're not a
0:10.4	member of the Stacks Pack and you want to support this podcast, you can join by going to patreon.com,
0:14.8	slash the Stacks. Let me tell you what you're about to hear. You're about to hear an edited version
0:19.7	of our live show in Chicago, Illinois, with guest, friend of the show, funniest person on the face
0:26.8	of the earth, Samantha Irby. We talk about her brand new book, Quietly Hostel. We talk about books
0:32.7	we love and books we hate. And we talk a lot about Hunter Biden's memoir that you didn't see that
0:40.2	coming. Anyway, I won't talk too much more. I hope you enjoy this. And if you're not a member of
0:45.0	the Stacks Pack patreon.com slash the Stacks to hear this and all of our other bonus episodes
0:50.3	plus a whole lot of other perks. Okay, okay, okay. I'm leaving. Enjoy.
1:04.8	For those of you who don't know who are dragged here by loved ones, I'm Tracy Thomas. I'm the
1:10.5	creator and host of a podcast called The Stacks. It's all about books. Yeah. So some of you have heard
1:18.0	of it. I'm about to introduce our guest, her name is Samantha Irby. I have these little
1:26.8	note cards where I read everyone's bio. And I'm going to read you her bio word for word. Here we
1:31.2	go. Samantha Irby is a humorous and essayist and the author of four essay collections.
1:38.0	The best bio ever. So this is Samantha Irby. This is her latest book. She's got four. They're all
1:50.6	here for you to buy if you haven't read them all. They're also great on audio. Great on audio.
1:57.4	It's the bane of my existence recording. You have to put this right up to your mouth because my
2:01.6	editor is here for the podcast. Oh, Christian, I kill you. Yeah, Christian will force it down.
2:07.5	You'll be standing and holding it for you. It does sound good, but it is torture for me to record
2:14.0	because they like put you in a closet and you just hear a guy's voice being like you said
2:18.8	that wrong. Go back, start over. What's the word you can't say? Do you know how to pronounce
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