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The new burden of the memoirist (Bookninja)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:34:11 GMT

This profile piece on Augusten Burroughs in the SMH raises some interesting questions: in the post Frey/Albert/et al world, do memoirs of severe suffering and abuse start out guilty and remain under suspicion until proven innocent? In Burroughs’s telling, it is as if what he sees as his father’s inner monstrousness manifested itself outwardly. Burroughs says this...

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Wolf at the Table, A (Pajiba)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:55:35 GMT

Possible Magical Thinking A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs / Jennifer McKeown...

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Sitting In Circles With Rich White Girls: Memoirs Of A Bulimic Black Boy (Seattle Weekly)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT

In his stage debut and one-man-show nonetheless, Chad Goller-Sojourner shares his story of growing upget ready for itblack, fat, gay, and raised by white parents. (Augusten Burroughs, relinquish your most-unusual-upbringing title.) Whether delivering a detailed account of losing h...

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25 funniest American people (Jake Weird)

noreply@blogger.com (Kendra) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:56:00 GMT

The 25 Funniest People in America: 25. AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Burroughs’ best-selling memoir Running with Scissors — about being raised by a nutso shrink who studies his poo and rents the back shed to a pedophile — is unbelievably disturbing. And sidesplitting. At first we felt guilty giggling at his adventures with an electroshock therapy machine, but Burroughs knows that...

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25 Funniest People in America (Gone Hollywood)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:33:12 GMT

Presenting The 25 Funniest People in America. From Conan O’Brien to Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey to Craig Ferguson, let’s count down the names of the entertainers who make us laugh the hardest. 25. AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Burroughs’ best-selling memoir Running with Scissors — about being raised by a nutso shrink who studies his poo and rents the [...]

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Last summer event (John Crowley Little and Big)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:54:32 GMT

...will be AUgusten Burroughs, famed memoirist, who was originally scheduled for today (Tues) but has had to be moved to Thursday July 2, for any and all who would like to come and encounter a genuine publishing phenomenon. SUdler Hall, 100 Wall St. New Haven CT, 7 pm.

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Bestselling author Augusten Burroughs rescheduled for Northshire … - Manchester Journal (Brad Pitt Celebrity News)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:42:10 GMT

Bestselling author Augusten Burroughs rescheduled for Northshire …Manchester Journal, VT - 1 hour agoThe book was also made into a Golden Globe-nominated film produced by Brad Pitt and starring Annette Benning and Joseph Cross. …

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Augusten Burroughs talks to Amazon (Inquietudes)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:51:10 GMT

Amazon has posted an interview with Augusten Burroughs on their blog, Omnivoracious.

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A Wolf At The Table by Augusten Burroughs (Smart.)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:27:27 GMT

A Wolf At The Table Augusten Burroughs 2008 St. Martin’s Press Summary: Burroughs focuses on the years he lived both in awe and fear of his philosophy professor father in Amherst, Mass. Despite frequent trips with his mother to escape his father’s alcoholic rages, Burroughs was determined to win his father’s affection, secretly touching the man’s wallet and cigarettes and...

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Emma Brockes interviews author Augusten Burroughs (The Guardian)

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Augusten Burroughs is only 42 but has written five memoirs. In the latest he targets his father - a terrifying figure who he says was capable of murder and almost certainly killed his guinea pig

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Read to romanticize Dad. (OTB News)

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:25:43 GMT

How is the publishing industry marking Father’s Day? With Augusten Burroughs casting his dad as the title animal in his new book, A Wolf at the Table. This is a patriarch so dreadful that he starves guinea pigs and has to be stopped at gun point from beating one of his children to death. Humph. [...]

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Read to romanticize Dad. (Slate Magazine)

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:18:03 GMT

How is the publishing industry marking Father's Day? With Augusten Burroughs casting his dad as the title animal in his new book, A Wolf at the Table. This is a patriarch so dreadful that he starves guinea pigs and has to be stopped at gun point from beating one of his children to death. Humph. In a spirit more befitting the holiday, how about some reading material that gives dads their...

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Augusten Burroughs Solves Your Writer's Block Forever [Books] (Gawker)

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:09:17 GMT

Running With Scissors author Augusten Burroughs gives an on-camera interview in which he reveals his secret writing process to the world. He works in bed! Gets up, showers, gets dressed, walks the...

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A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs (About Literature: Contemporary)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:13:30 GMT

In A Wolf at the Table, Augusten Burroughs returns to the story of his dysfunctional family, a subject that he mastered in his bestseller, Running with Scissors (2003). If the...

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Not quite a slump (Smart.)

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:21:03 GMT

I am in the middle of 4 books that I’m really enjoying, so I’m having a hard time picking one to focus on. Coming soon: The Leper Compound by Paula Nangle A Wolf At The Table by Augusten Burroughs Fool Moon by Jim Butcher Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore Hopefully I can finish them all in the next few days! [...]

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More Talk on Augusten Burroughs (A Delicate Boy...)

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:45:00 GMT

On the trip last week, I finished reading A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs, which I wrote about after receiving it. I would say the book is better than Running with Scissors but not as good as Dry. It took me a while to get into it. He writes it in a traditionally chronological fashion, and at first his father seems merely neglectful. But then he turns sociopathic, and the things...

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Literature: Burroughs’ Wolf at the Table (DOWN and OUT)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:25:32 GMT

“Where there is nothing, absolutely anything is possible, and this thrilled me. It gave me hope.” -Augusten Burroughs in A Wolf at the Table Augusten Burroughs’ newest book, A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father –St. Martin’s Press, 2008–is probably not the best book to give your dad this Father’s Day. But it [...]

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A dirty laundry memoir, with precision (atHome Top Story)

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:30:00 GMT

Augusten Burroughs has spent much of his literary career unabashedly airing his own dirty laundry. These days, the bestselling memoirist isn't the only one rooting through his hamper.

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Recently Recieved: NonFiction Titles (OUTLOUD)

Wed, 28 May 2008 20:28:59 GMT

I wan to let you all know about some recent titles we’ve received at the office. You might some something on the list to feed you summer reading appetite. First, I wand to mention Augusten Burroughs new memoir, A Wolf at the Table. This memoir is about his early childhood and his alcoholic father. [...]

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The boy who cried wolf - Augusten Burroughs book review (Scotsman.com)

Sat, 24 May 2008 23:47:37 GMT

Augusten BurroughsVirgin Books, £14.99WHEN Augusten Burroughs wrote Running With Scissors, he regaled readers with hilarious tales of the domestic craziness he endured while growing up. Now, in another family memoir, Burroughs makes a crazy move of his own. A Wolf At The Table is a portrait of the author's apparently maniacal and Augusten-hating father.Determinedly unfunny, awkwardly histrionic and...

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