Augusten Burroughs’ newest book contains only a very small section toward the beginning that takes place in San Francisco, but that’s not to say famous S.F. figures aren’t on his mind. On the same day ...

Augusten Burroughs, read by the author. Macmillan Audio, , unabridged, 7 CDs, 9 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-7068-9 Over the past decade and a half, Burroughs has established himself as a leading ...

It's an odd thing, watching a memoirist grow up on the page. Most writers (and we're talking about a specific subset of writers here — those afflicted by the autobiographical blabbermouth disease) ...

Sometimes life hands us gift-wrapped shit. And we’re like, “This isn’t a gift; it’s shit. Screw you.” One such gift comes with the wrapping paper known as limits. Oh, how we hate limits. Limits hold ...

None of the many readers of Burroughs's mordant memoir debut, Running with Scissors, would doubt that its entertainingly twisted author could manage, by page 41 of his new installment, to check ...

Running With Scissors is the hugely popular memoir by Augusten Burroughs. It is the tale of his life and his mother, who, he writes, gave him away to her psychiatrist at a young age. The tale is ...

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Augusten Burroughs is a man of many words, but he was at a loss the other night. The author of the best-selling memoirs “Running With Scissors” and “Dry” has been touring the country to talk about his ...

The writer Augusten Burroughs doesn't shy away from deeply personal, messy events. In his hit "Running With Scissors," he describes a bizarre childhood in which his mentally unstable mother sends him ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But, in the first of several phone conversations this past spring, Burroughs tells me that his goal in putting his harrowing past ...

Augusten Burroughs has had an eventful life. Since the 2002 debut of his dysfunctional-childhood memoir “Running with Scissors,” Burroughs has written four more memoirs. His most recent, “Toil & ...