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Christmas has not been kind to Augusten Burroughs. But in his inimitable style, the New York Times best-selling author of Running with Scissors, Dry and A Wolf at the Table turns his smorgasbord of cringe-worthy seasonal memories - a one-night stand with an aging Frenchman in a Santa suit, a holiday spent among the homeless - into an improbably merry, touching read. You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas hit shelves Oct. 27. TIME caught up with Burroughs to chat about why he writes, what he reads and memoirists who lie. (See TIME's top 100 books...
Running with Scissors Directed by Ryan Murphy Sony Pictures Entertainment After leaving “Running with Scissors,” I called my mother to tell her I loved her—after you see what Augusten Burroughs endured during his upbringing, you’d have to be without a soul to not react the same way. This is the power of the directorial debut of Ryan Murphy, best known as the creator of the groundbreaking television series “Nip/Tuck,” an adaptation of Augusten Burroughs’ bestseller. Newcomer Joseph Cross takes...
...game of one-downsmanship among modern memoirists as to who has the weirdest, most dysfunctional, most damaging parents. Granted, Kathryn Har- rison more or less ran the table with 1997's The Kiss, which describes her four-year affair with her father, and Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes) and Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors) aren't far behind. But there's spirited competition for fourth place. Two new memoirs, Michael Rips' The Face of a Naked Lady (Houghton Mifflin; 192 pages) and Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle (Scribner; 288 pages), are worthy contenders...
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...Augusten Burroughs was driven to drink by Bewitched. "I worshipped Darren Stevens the First," he writes in his new memoir, Dry (St. Martin's; 293 pages). "When he'd come home from work, Samantha would say, 'Darren, would you like me to fix you a drink?' He'd always rest his briefcase on the table below the mirror in the foyer...and say, 'Better make it a double.'" Burroughs would uncap one of his father's liquor bottles, upend it with his hand pressed over the top, then recap it and lick his palm...