Here's an article found on D of the Republic, which is about a type of woman very similar to the gendarmes. The book written by the protagonist of this interview (the club of the few but good) will be read and reviewed by Polly Gianda shortly.
Enjoy reading the article, for the moment.
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are the opposite of the protagonist of Sex and the CITY, WHY 'are awkward, unresolved. YET HAVE AN EXTRAORDINARY DOTE. LAURIE NOTAR * EXPLAINS HIS THEORY
by Francesca Gentile
Laughter will save us and Laurie Notaro knows. Probably this is the American writer with a loud laugh contagious. He has his reasons, of course. She is the author of the humorous saga of the "idiot girls", a literary event erupted in 2002 with the first book, The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life, jumped a leader of the New York Times After seven years of waste editorials, 70 letters returned to sender, the decision to publish it himself, and now printed in Italy by Piemme The club with the title of the few but good. Laurie was born in Brooklyn in the neighborhood of Bay Ridge, to parents of Italian-Sicilian origins of Abruzzo, but grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. The art of being funny is genetic: "My family was loud and sarcastic. I have inherited a kind of cynical humor and distorted." The episodes collected in his books are autobiographical. Chili and problems too. Alcohol and carbohydrate to pull himself up and guilt to complicate his life. The author recounts the adventures of a group of schoolgirls, nice and bright enough to win a prestigious man and existence. For which even a perfect laser hair removal or hair is freshly hairdresser are sufficient to allay anxiety. What qualities one must possess to enter the brotherhood of the 'awkward girls? "You have to be awkward - and therefore inelegant - perpetually dissatisfied, have a mountain of problems and be overwhelmed by things that happen without being able to react and find a sensible solution. It's like being constantly exposed to judgments of others. As if the people saw the your underwear all the time. "So she continues to show his underwear in public? "I think so. A recent example: I was making a stop in Chicago for the promotional tour for my book. I'm not used to wearing shoes with high heels, but on this occasion I decided to go out in public with a more feminine look. Be ' , I lost my balance and they are ruined on the ground in front of everyone. Painful. I get the idea? ". Even Carrie Bradshaw in an episode of Sex and the City falls from high heels during a parade. What's the difference?" Carrie is cute, full of glamorous, well dressed, if he falls he gets anyway. I am on the opposite shore. My physical appearance does not give me any advantage. Whenever I'm forced to turn my slips in self-irony and intelligence. "Which of the two parties is more numerous? What Sex and the City girls or yours?" We "idiot girl", as I like to define us, yet we're not normal and not at all common. We are much more fun. If I could choose I would have preferred to be born in the guise of a beautiful creature. But moved up to now for me would mean cosmetic surgery, liposuction and a lot of money. "Is there any reason to love the awkward girls more than girls Sex and the City?" When you come across an idiot girl encounters a real person. The Carrie Bradshaw is concerned with their image, wearing expensive shoes, they think mainly of their beauty: who needs the right circumstances, a man up to it. Of an artificial life, in short. The clumsy girls know nothing about these matters. They know they have spoiled their face the first time I have suffered from sickness during the bus ride to the fourth high school. They have since closed their image. The girls are real awkward. Amano shoes, but it is more likely to wear sneakers or boots instead of Manolo Blahnik. The beauty is awkward for a girl sit at a table with six other girls and they all ask for a dessert (and please you but take your own, that is good to share the pleasure without the guilt split). "Being imperfect we can benefit "Sure! We are so far from perfect that it is pointless to try to achieve. Time wasted. We must face the world as we are not worried about the value of our experiences, rather than our image in the eyes of others. When you wake up every morning asking "who will see me in shorts today?" eliminate a lot of stress. "A woman may waive the seduction? "Seduce? do not even know what that means. I have to laugh. In the world of girls would be awkward being a dinner offer him, and then see the first morsel of food dropped on your shirt. If He is everything nice, I think we can talk about seduction style idiot girl. We seduce with wit, with the expertise - we always know what is the best restaurant at the lowest price - and with a lot 'of uncoordinated physically. " In the current culture of consumption, with the communication and marketing, what makes a woman attractive to a man accustomed to seeing women everywhere-tissue? "You have to accept it as is. Is to stop aiming for idealized models offered by magazines and TV, which remain inaccessible. Even the women on the cover bears no resemblance to themselves. The girls are not trying to be awkward that they are not. They are comfortable with their identity, even if this means not enter into a size 42 and do not have a purse of 1,000 €, and perhaps why they feel good. Since I am not busy chasing the dream to be like any Californian with blond breasts bursting, and should not be modeled on that stereotype, they feel secure about themselves, and I think this is a very interesting position. However, the man who really want is what is not interested in women-Barbie. "What are women like them, and vice versa, those who do not like? "The women with whom to share a dessert are: Hillary Clinton, because it has a fantastic sense of humor, is intelligent and her ankles are so thick that I might screw never be chained to other prisoners. Michelle Obama: smart, with beautiful teeth and a fantastic full-on election night. I think I could turn to her if I urgently need a comb. Christiane Amanpour is brave, always in the middle of events, he knows the facts of the deals and his hair is uncontrollable. E Camilla Parker Bowles still: it seems rude, but I bet that after a couple of cocktails would call me "sister." Those hair nuts, cork, then, make me tenerezza.Le women with whom to share a dessert but do not include: Ann Coulter, which I fear would eat my face and every child noisy happened in his field of vision. Elizabeth Hasselbeck: it is a silly, you might drown in a glass of water. Madonna, because I judge from the top of my arms. "Five things you should avoid a clumsy girl and five others that can be done successfully?" Things to avoid: bring heels that exceed the height of a marker. Wear white pants. Trying to jump a fence. Agreed to an impromptu show the transformation of a department store (leaving no saves). Agree to make a bride's maid of honor. To do (successfully): press the abdomen of a friend who is choking (hoping that it has not been drinking). Laugh a policeman: the only way to do it to give up fine. Telling the best story. Divide a dozen donuts with a friend. Keep a secret. It is better to marry a girl of a clumsy Sex and the City girl? "Absolutely. A clumsy girl will never be boring, always unexpected things, which is stumbling in its gonna be who decides to use a gas torch the weeds in your garden. A clumsy girl you will always laugh and your life will not be ever, but just never, stupid. " There are clumsy children? Are to be married? "Of course there are, but do not recommend to go to the altar. Usually I'm gay."
by Francesca Gentile
Laughter will save us and Laurie Notaro knows. Probably this is the American writer with a loud laugh contagious. He has his reasons, of course. She is the author of the humorous saga of the "idiot girls", a literary event erupted in 2002 with the first book, The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life, jumped a leader of the New York Times After seven years of waste editorials, 70 letters returned to sender, the decision to publish it himself, and now printed in Italy by Piemme The club with the title of the few but good. Laurie was born in Brooklyn in the neighborhood of Bay Ridge, to parents of Italian-Sicilian origins of Abruzzo, but grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. The art of being funny is genetic: "My family was loud and sarcastic. I have inherited a kind of cynical humor and distorted." The episodes collected in his books are autobiographical. Chili and problems too. Alcohol and carbohydrate to pull himself up and guilt to complicate his life. The author recounts the adventures of a group of schoolgirls, nice and bright enough to win a prestigious man and existence. For which even a perfect laser hair removal or hair is freshly hairdresser are sufficient to allay anxiety. What qualities one must possess to enter the brotherhood of the 'awkward girls? "You have to be awkward - and therefore inelegant - perpetually dissatisfied, have a mountain of problems and be overwhelmed by things that happen without being able to react and find a sensible solution. It's like being constantly exposed to judgments of others. As if the people saw the your underwear all the time. "So she continues to show his underwear in public? "I think so. A recent example: I was making a stop in Chicago for the promotional tour for my book. I'm not used to wearing shoes with high heels, but on this occasion I decided to go out in public with a more feminine look. Be ' , I lost my balance and they are ruined on the ground in front of everyone. Painful. I get the idea? ". Even Carrie Bradshaw in an episode of Sex and the City falls from high heels during a parade. What's the difference?" Carrie is cute, full of glamorous, well dressed, if he falls he gets anyway. I am on the opposite shore. My physical appearance does not give me any advantage. Whenever I'm forced to turn my slips in self-irony and intelligence. "Which of the two parties is more numerous? What Sex and the City girls or yours?" We "idiot girl", as I like to define us, yet we're not normal and not at all common. We are much more fun. If I could choose I would have preferred to be born in the guise of a beautiful creature. But moved up to now for me would mean cosmetic surgery, liposuction and a lot of money. "Is there any reason to love the awkward girls more than girls Sex and the City?" When you come across an idiot girl encounters a real person. The Carrie Bradshaw is concerned with their image, wearing expensive shoes, they think mainly of their beauty: who needs the right circumstances, a man up to it. Of an artificial life, in short. The clumsy girls know nothing about these matters. They know they have spoiled their face the first time I have suffered from sickness during the bus ride to the fourth high school. They have since closed their image. The girls are real awkward. Amano shoes, but it is more likely to wear sneakers or boots instead of Manolo Blahnik. The beauty is awkward for a girl sit at a table with six other girls and they all ask for a dessert (and please you but take your own, that is good to share the pleasure without the guilt split). "Being imperfect we can benefit "Sure! We are so far from perfect that it is pointless to try to achieve. Time wasted. We must face the world as we are not worried about the value of our experiences, rather than our image in the eyes of others. When you wake up every morning asking "who will see me in shorts today?" eliminate a lot of stress. "A woman may waive the seduction? "Seduce? do not even know what that means. I have to laugh. In the world of girls would be awkward being a dinner offer him, and then see the first morsel of food dropped on your shirt. If He is everything nice, I think we can talk about seduction style idiot girl. We seduce with wit, with the expertise - we always know what is the best restaurant at the lowest price - and with a lot 'of uncoordinated physically. " In the current culture of consumption, with the communication and marketing, what makes a woman attractive to a man accustomed to seeing women everywhere-tissue? "You have to accept it as is. Is to stop aiming for idealized models offered by magazines and TV, which remain inaccessible. Even the women on the cover bears no resemblance to themselves. The girls are not trying to be awkward that they are not. They are comfortable with their identity, even if this means not enter into a size 42 and do not have a purse of 1,000 €, and perhaps why they feel good. Since I am not busy chasing the dream to be like any Californian with blond breasts bursting, and should not be modeled on that stereotype, they feel secure about themselves, and I think this is a very interesting position. However, the man who really want is what is not interested in women-Barbie. "What are women like them, and vice versa, those who do not like? "The women with whom to share a dessert are: Hillary Clinton, because it has a fantastic sense of humor, is intelligent and her ankles are so thick that I might screw never be chained to other prisoners. Michelle Obama: smart, with beautiful teeth and a fantastic full-on election night. I think I could turn to her if I urgently need a comb. Christiane Amanpour is brave, always in the middle of events, he knows the facts of the deals and his hair is uncontrollable. E Camilla Parker Bowles still: it seems rude, but I bet that after a couple of cocktails would call me "sister." Those hair nuts, cork, then, make me tenerezza.Le women with whom to share a dessert but do not include: Ann Coulter, which I fear would eat my face and every child noisy happened in his field of vision. Elizabeth Hasselbeck: it is a silly, you might drown in a glass of water. Madonna, because I judge from the top of my arms. "Five things you should avoid a clumsy girl and five others that can be done successfully?" Things to avoid: bring heels that exceed the height of a marker. Wear white pants. Trying to jump a fence. Agreed to an impromptu show the transformation of a department store (leaving no saves). Agree to make a bride's maid of honor. To do (successfully): press the abdomen of a friend who is choking (hoping that it has not been drinking). Laugh a policeman: the only way to do it to give up fine. Telling the best story. Divide a dozen donuts with a friend. Keep a secret. It is better to marry a girl of a clumsy Sex and the City girl? "Absolutely. A clumsy girl will never be boring, always unexpected things, which is stumbling in its gonna be who decides to use a gas torch the weeds in your garden. A clumsy girl you will always laugh and your life will not be ever, but just never, stupid. " There are clumsy children? Are to be married? "Of course there are, but do not recommend to go to the altar. Usually I'm gay."
(*) He gave a humorous column for ten years. Licensed by seven jobs, now lives with her husband and pets in Phoenix, Arizona. His bestseller The club of the few but good is published by Piemme.
