The Potty Mouth at the Table

Laurie Notaro

• Publisher: Gallery Books
• eBook ISBN:
  9781451659412
• Year: 2013

From the celebrated author best known for the Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club and described as “the funniest writer in the solar system” (The Miami Herald) comes a new laugh-out-loud collection of essays on rudeness.

Pinterest. Foodies. Anne Frank’s underwear. New York Times bestselling author Laurie Notaro—rightfully hailed as “the funniest writer in the solar system” (The Miami Herald)—spares nothing and no one, least of all herself, in this uproarious new collection of essays on rudeness. With the sardonic, self-deprecating wit that makes us all feel a little better about ourselves for identifying with her, Laurie explores her recent misadventures and explains why it’s not her who is nuts, it’s them (and okay, sometimes it’s her too).

Whether confessing that her obsession with buying fabric has reached junior hoarder status or mistaking a friend’s heinous tattoo as temporary, Laurie puts her unique spin—sometimes bizarre, always entertaining—on the many perils of modern living in a mannerless society. From shuddering at the graphic Harry Potter erotica conjured up at a writer’s group to lamenting the sudden ubiquity of quinoa (“It looks like larvae no matter how you cook it”), The Potty Mouth at the Table is whip-smart, unpredictable, and hilarious. In other words, irresistibly Laurie.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Antiques No Show
• That Damn Hobo
• The Potty Mouth at the Table
• Don’t Make Me the Asshole
• Legends of the Fall
• Striptease
• Live from the Bellagio
• Writers’ Group
• The Accidental Profiler
• Tiny Dancer
• Fabric Obsession
• The Guantánamo Bay Knitting and Book Club
• Busted
• Thanksgiving!!!!
• Nettle Mind
• I Hate Foodies
• Hierarchy of Foodies
• Am I a Book Snob?
• Death Cab for Cooties
• The Red Chair
• I’m Gonna Get You
• Sins of the Pin
• Horny
• Six Things I Never Want to Hear (Again) While Standing in Line at the Pharmacy
• I Only Want to Know If You Have Herpes
• Spit Swap Meet
• A Handy Manual for a Widower, My Husband
• If I Only Had a Brain
• Who Said It Was Donut Time?
• Yelp Me
• You Are Not Invited
• Blackout
• Rewinding
• Acknowledgments
• Author Q&A
• About Laurie Notaro
• Copyright