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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    ‘I’m meanest to myself’: Sam Irby on ‘Quietly Hostile’

    Sam Irby’s fourth book of essays, “Quietly Hostile,” includes stories about being the perfect house party guest, incontinence on airplanes, growing up on food stamps, and more.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jun 14, 2023 • 1 min read

    Sam Irby’s fourth book of essays, “Quietly Hostile,” includes stories about being the perfect house party guest, incontinence on airplanes, growing up on food stamps, and more.

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    Legal trouble for Curren Price, another big quake expected for LA
    1. 0:00Legal trouble for Curren Price is like awful version of ‘Groundhog Day’
    2. 10:22Trump uses far-right rhetoric to connect to followers post-indictment
    3. 23:20Salton Sea may be delaying the next big earthquake in SoCal
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    The full episode

    4 of 4
    Legal trouble for Curren Price, another big quake expected for LA
    1. 0:00Legal trouble for Curren Price is like awful version of ‘Groundhog Day’
    2. 10:22Trump uses far-right rhetoric to connect to followers post-indictment
    3. 23:20Salton Sea may be delaying the next big earthquake in SoCal
    4. 32:28‘I’m meanest to myself’: Sam Irby on ‘Quietly Hostile’You’re reading this
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