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BOOKS: Augusten Burroughs 77
At the age of 8 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...
In last year's improbably hilarious best seller Running with Scissors, Burroughs told the story of his decidedly unconventional adolescence: when he was 13, his wildly neurotic mother effectively gave him away to her psychiatrist, who raised him in a ramshackle house with a menagerie of patients. Dry is the...
At 19, with only an elementary school education, Burroughs landed a job at Ogilvy & Mather and in short order became a Manhattan adman with a six-figure salary. "It was just thrilling," he remembers over lunch at the sort of expense-account restaurant frequented by Manhattan admen. "I thought I...
Readers looking for enlightenment about E may be best served elsewhere. In fact, Aitkenhead takes great pains to avoid describing the physical effects of mdma, and much of the book is about searching for hug drugs rather than actually gulping them. As a travel journal, however, The Promised Land is...