The best part about reading a book by Lammy Award-winning queer humor essayist Samantha Irby, including her new one, “Quietly Hostile” (Vintage, 2023), is the way she makes you laugh out loud.

“I think lots of gay men have prison fantasies,” explained playwright and producer Ronnie Larsen. “One of the biggest porn movies of all time was ‘Powertool,’ with Jeff Stryker playing a prisoner. It’s a thing.”