You can't walk into a book store these days without seeing them. Self-help books. Not only is there usually a section reserved for them; they can take up the majority of some store's floor space. It ...

Yesterday, very early in the morning, I had the opportunity to interview Augusten Burroughs, author of the monstrous bestseller Running with Scissors. (By opportunity, I mean I walked backwards into a ...

Thursday night promises to be full of rare moments for Tegan Quin, half of sister duo Tegan & Sara. She’ll be performing a song that she wrote to accompany the audiobook of Augusten Burroughs’ A Wolf ...

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In “Running with Scissors,” Augusten Burroughs writes about his horrifying childhood: raised by a psychotic mom in a dilapidated house filled with the mentally unstable. But Burroughs never gave up ...

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Your memoir Running With Scissors kicks off with your mother’s descent into psychosis. Do you feel like you dodged a bullet with mental illness? AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS There were two ...

Augusten Burroughs is a story teller. He extracts snippets of memories, often entire narratives from his past and constructs them into poignant, humorous and true stories. In "Dry" (2003), we read ...