Laurie promises she'll come home to do a reading.Ī pool hall, as opposed to a billiards parlor, should be comfortable but with an edge. We won't have to wait that long for our next Laurie fix An Idiot Girl's Christmas: True Tales From the Top of the Naughty List will be released in November. We miss Laurie, but we can't wait to read her tales of life in greener pastures. When her first book, The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club, hit the New York Times best-seller list, we figured Laurie wasn't long for Phoenix, and we were right - last year she moved to Eugene, Oregon. We've never laughed as hard as the night Laurie read the essay about the time her brown corduroy pants split, then offered them up as Exhibit A. Everything, from the time she tried out to be a Playboy bunny to the time her mother got a cockroach stuck in her ear.

After countless years as a columnist at every rag in town (but this one) from Planet to the Arizona Republic, and - count 'em - four books of essays, we know everything about Laurie Notaro.