How to Quarantine With Samantha Irby
Comedian and writer Samantha Irby is joining us this week on Update on how to quarantine yourself. This includes finding the right TV shows for booze (she has a couple of recommendations), the right books to run off with, and the right foods to cook while you’re at home. Sam is the New York Times bestselling author of We Never Meet in Real Life , Meat and, more recently, Wow No Thanks .
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Highlights from this week’s series
From an interview with Samantha Irby
As a rule, no. 1 being inside all the time:
I think my biggest advice is to clean up. And I don’t look like a neat freak, don’t get me wrong. But even if you just grab all the rubbish and piles of rubbish in your house and put them in a lid-proof item, you will be much better off being at home when you are not surrounded by your own clutter.
On the challenges of promoting your book during a pandemic:
I don’t think anyone was ready for the [remote book tour] because, for example, figuring out how to download all sorts of apps and navigate to websites I’ve never heard of and trying to love the record … one thing the place was like, “We need you to buy a microphone.” And I thought, “People cannot get medicine. Do you think I’ll find a microphone for this interview somehow ?? “
On the unexpected things she overlooks during physical distancing:
I miss the bookstore and look at books or any other store and look at things that maybe I’ll buy going through Target … So now that I can’t do any of this, I feel like I stole a thing that I might not even do. It’s like, “Oh, I would go grocery shopping, but not today.” So as much as I love it, I still feel like my mom told me that I was grounded or something, and I can’t do something that I probably wouldn’t have done anyway. But now that I can’t, every day I am like that, you know what? I need six Starbucks.
To learn more about Sam’s self-isolation experience, we highly recommend listening to the entire episode.
And as promised in the episode, Alice’s blind outline drawings:
What is blind contour drawing and why do one too? Here’s a good explanation.
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