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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“I guess it doesn’t matter where I begin,” reasons the adult narrator of Running With Scissors, the inevitable Oscar contender adapted from Augusten Burroughs’s wacky memoir of coming out as a gay ...

You might be surprised by the outcome of author Augusten Burroughs’ latest book, “Lust & Wonder.” Christopher Schelling If you’ve read Augusten Burroughs’ other cynically funny memoirs, you might be ...

Upon finishing reading Augusten Burroughs' new memoir Lust & Wonder, the proverb "Contentment breeds mediocrity" immediately came to mind. Burroughs became famous through his two previous mind-blowing ...

"Bookman gave me attention. We would go for long walks and talk about all sorts of things. Like how awful the nuns were in his Catholic school when he was a kid and how you have to roll your lips over ...

Augusten Burroughs isn’t your average memoirist. In addition to possessing the ability to recall detailed memories of his life starting at infancy (thanks to an inherited pre-frontal cortex disorder), ...

On a rainy day, Margaret Robison sits in her wheelchair on the tiny porch behind her house. It's her favorite place for writing poetry. The covered balcony hangs in the trees, like a diving board over ...

So, you think you had a weird childhood, do you? Well, get over yourself, because the weird childhood crown has just been taken by a young writer named Augusten Burroughs. The bad childhood award is, ...

Augusten Burroughs wrote the best-selling memoir ''Running With Scissors'' and ''Dry.'' ...