Word: holidaying
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...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 of all time...
...some pretty awful luck with Christmas. What do you have planned this year? My partner and I have split after about a decade together. So there you go. It keeps going. But what I've found is these holidays that I always think are so horrible actually aren't quite that horrible. It's like when our house flooded [one Christmas]. The way our neighbor responded, it wasn't just that she helped. And it wasn't that she later brought over a basket of sandwiches. There was something nearly indescribable in the way that she offered herself...
...would write. I thought I would write something that was just funny. But I don't have control over that; my subconscious does the writing. And I like it better than I would have, I think. It's got some stories in there that are a little heavy for holiday reading. But holidays are a heavy, heavy time. We make light of them with our red and green and our stockings and candy canes, but people think heavy thoughts over the holidays because that's when you're thinking about family. Are we close? Or are we not as close...
...more? No, because it's a surprise. If I told you, you'd be horrified. It's going to be good. It's the book I was born to write. (See the top 10 YouTube holiday specials...
...Target.com has since matched Walmart.com and Amazon on all 10.) Walmart responded by dropping its price by another penny, to $8.98. There's no word whether Walmart then stuck out its tongue and yelled "Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah" to its rivals. (See TIME's 2008 holiday buying guide...