Pop Candy (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Last weekend I had lunch at the American Art Museum and started reading The Alcoholic, the new graphic novel from writer Jonathan Ames and artist Dean Haspiel. I ended up glued to my seat, because I literally couldn't put down...
Memphis Reads (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Nonfiction/ Memoir Andrea Bledsoe reviews LOOK ME IN THE EYE : MY LIFE WITH ASPERGER'S by John Elder Robison (Crown Publishers, 2007) Recently, I have begun reading a lot more nonfiction, or memoirs to be exact. Earlier this month, I finished reading all of Augusten Burroughs’ books, which I will review at a later time. I noticed in two of the books that he mentions a brother who has a form of autism....
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Enlisting a family member to vouch for your talent in the foreword of your debut memoir doesn't sound like a particularly impressive endorsementunless, of course, you're John Elder Robison and your brother just happens to be the ridiculously popular Augusten Burroughs. Then your book...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Michelle Williams and Spike Jonze nibbled on chicken and each other at the Farm on Adderley in Brooklyn's Ditmas Park. Augusten Burroughs rudely spilled the title of David Rakoff's next book at a Housing Works books event. New York society-type couple Brooke Hayward and Peter Duchin are separating after 23 years of marriage. A bunch of powerful people came by Liz Smith 's table at Michael's while...
Spanglemonkey (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Slept like crazy last night, again. I think getting used to the time change I seem to sleep on either side of both time zones, so I fall asleep at 9 for the East Coast and wake up at 8...
Idle Musings (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
I had some friends over last weekend and a few had never seen my library, where I have around 750 books. Most were stunned that (1) I had so many books that take up an entire room and (2) That I even read anything at all that isn’t online. As we started to talk about [...]
F-News (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
SAVANNAH, Georgia (Billboard) - It's a big month for Tegan Quin of the Canadian sibling rock duo Tegan and Sara. She and her twin are embarking on the final leg of their tour supporting their 2007 album "The Con," she's co-headlining a benefit event in New York with author Augusten Burroughs, and she's filming a video for her duet with Florida punk outfit Against Me! Also, one day very soon, she will...
idobi Network News (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
It’s a big month for Tegan Quin of the Canadian sibling rock duo Tegan and Sara. She and her twin are embarking on the final leg of their tour supporting their 2007 album “The Con,” she’s co-headlining a benefit event in New York with author Augusten Burroughs, and she’s filming a video for her duet with [...]
BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
photo credit: adobemac If you’ve been feeling like everyone and their neighbor is writing a memoir, well EW’s list proves your hunch to be true! I realize this list is overwhelming, but it’s also kind of fun. Be sure to check out which ones EW picks at the very end… Ready, Set, Go! Childhood Grew up… In Texas: [...]
unraveled (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
I finished Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs today. I realized when I started reading this book that I must have read it before. Although as a rule I don't read books more than once, with a movie recently made based on this memoir, I decided to read it again. This is a memoir about a boy who's mother sends him to live with his psychiatrist and the unusual childhood he endured. Written in...
MOVIE SMACKDOWN! | Bryce Zabel | WG (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Therapists Who Need Therapists The Smackdown. Hollywood loves to write about therapists who are more screwed up than their patients. Maybe that's because most Hollywood writers and directors are in therapy and want to feel better about themselves, I don't know. Anyway, both of these films from Sony Pictures and from writer/directors put their coming-of-age male leads in therapy with people who are,...
Rudy's Blog (Free subscription) | 13/07/2008
Did I mention that I’ve been rereading some Jack Kerouac? I read The Dharma Bums over the last couple of weeks, and am working on Tristessa and Desolation Angels now. Jack was a great gloopy nut, a fanatic wordsmith, a one-man army of the night. Publishing obscene Etruscan odes on the dumpsters of yuppie Californee. I’m [...]
Jake Weird (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
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 laughter is the best antidepressant....
Gone Hollywood (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
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 [...]
Brad Pitt Celebrity News (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
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. …
