
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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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find what we talked about on Amazon.

- Samantha Irby
- Live in The Stacks Tour
- Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
- Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby (audiobook)
- Meaty by Samantha Irby
- “Ep. 106 Samantha Irby//Wow, No Thank You” (The Stacks)
- Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
- Diet Coke
- Charmin
- The Charmin Bears
- Dave Matthews Band
- Shonda Rhimes
- Shondaland
- Betsy Beers
- Oprah
- Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
- “Ep. 18 Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes — The Stacks Book Club (Ashley North)” (The Stacks)
- New Boy by Tracy Chevalier
- “Ep. 10 New Boy by Tracy Chevalier — The Stacks Book Club (Vella Lovell)” (The Stacks)
- Othello by William Shakespeare
- O (Tim Blake Nelson, 2001)
- Vella Lovell
- The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills
- “Ep. 40 The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz — The Stacks Book Club (Alec Penix)” (The Stacks)
- The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu
- Sally Rooney
- Paul Mescal
- Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
- Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi
- Permanent Record by Mary H. K. Choi
- Yolk by Mary H. K. Choi
- “Ep. 155 The Art of the Crush with Mary H.K. Choi” (The Stacks)
- Missbehave Magazine
- Stephen King
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King
- Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
- Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi
- Four Days in November by Vincent Bugliosi
- The Real Housewives of New York City (Bravo)
- Quality Value Convenience (QVC)
- The Cheesecake Factory
- Red Lobster
- Ron DeSantis
- Hunter Biden
- Beautiful Things by Hunter Biden
- Semicolon Bookstore (Chicago, IL)
- Los Angeles Times

- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Allow Me to Retort by Elie Mystal
- Congratulations, the Best Is Over by R. Eric Thomas
- “Ep. 112 R. Eric Thomas//Here for It” (The Stacks)
- Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
- Fall and Rise by Mitchell Zuckoff
- We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian
- Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
- The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff
- Homegrown by Jeffrey Toobin
- The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
- Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna
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