Kate Zambreno

Traveling misadventures have turned themselves nicely into creative fodder for members of the Neo-Futurists theater company. Greg Kotis drew the inspiration for the wildly successful Broadway musical "Urinetown" while too poor to pee in Paris. Known for penning her New York mommy escapades in her zine "The East Village Inky" as well as the book "The Big Rumpus," his wife Ayun Halliday has parlayed her days guilelessly gullivering all over the globe after graduating from Northwestern University into "No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late." Bathrooms plays a huge part in this travel memoir as well, and "No Touch Monkey" is shocking and scatological and straight-out hilarious. Whether hanging out with her Hoosier mom at the Paris couture shows or getting stoned in Saigon or having an unfortunate mess-up in the bathroom of a Berlin train station, Halliday chronicles her journey into a delightful hybrid of Hemingway, David Sedaris and Helen Fielding. Her live reading of these comic gems will likely elicit big guffaws.

Ayun Halliday reads from "No Touch Monkey!" December 11 at 7pm at Quimby's, 1854 West North, (773)342-0910.

(2003-12-10)

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