Samantha Irby Developing 'Meaty' TV Adaptation With Jessi Klein, Abbi Jacobson

By Stephen Gossett in Arts & Entertainment on Sep 30, 2016 4:53PM

Much-loved Chicago author Samantha Irby is hitting Hollywood in the best possible way. The author of the summarily excellent Bitches Gotta Eat blog is adapting her acclaimed personal essay collection Meaty for a half-hour series on FX, according to Deadline.

The locally based Irby has been teasing the project for a short while on Facebook, but now we have more details—and they’re pretty exciting. The Meaty adaptation will be co-written by Jessi Klein (Inside Amy Schumer; Klein’s own hilarious memoir, You’ll Grow Out of It) and co-executive produced by Abbi Jacobson (Broad City). Deadline writes that Meaty will track Irby through “failed relationships, taco feasts, her struggles with Crohn’s disease, poverty, blackness and body image”—which is exactly how an Irby adaptation should hope to be described.

No word yet on a premiere date. In the meantime, sample some of Irby’s incisive with below, definitely check out Bitches Gotta Eat and take a look at our interview with Klein from this summer.

And remember to keep your calendar marked for Oct. 28, when Irby will host a book discussion with Jacobson for the author’s Carry This Book here in town.