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Girl With a Satchel (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Last year David Sedaris' short story collection, Holidays on Ice, made me chuckle as I filled those rare few book-reading minutes in the lead up to Christmas. This year, I could barely contain myself as I hurriedly paged through Augusten Burroughs' You Better Not Cry (Hachette; $29.99), his equally hilarious and often cringe-worthy first-person homage to the holiday season. As those who've read his...
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Splendora Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Augusten Burroughs, the brilliantly outrageous American novelist who gave us Running with Scissors, just released a holiday-themed memoir titled You Better Not Cry, which we'll be reading by the...
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Homeless Tales (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Hello, fellow HT-ers! Matt asked me to whip up a post filling in everybody on all the latest juicy gossip on our end, so here goes! I will start out with Matt’s joyous news – Wednesday, October 28th, at 9:25 AM Scotland time (2:25 AM PST), Matt’s daughter was born via Cesarean section. Her [...]
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Bluestalking Reader (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
I thought I hated Chuck Palahniuk. Ever since I saw my first book by him a few years ago. I judged him without even reading him, going solely on the covers of his books and something or other I read...
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My Tragic Right Hip (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
When the US presented this book at conference a world and a half ago, I was totally taken with the cover. The idea that the son of Jack Canfield, the author of those (ridiculous') Chicken Soup for the Soul books, became a heroin addict and lived to tell the tale was intriguing. I did two things I never do: 1) judged a book by its cover and 2) picked up the book solely based on the fact that its blurb...
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Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
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 6am interview.) You can split modern fiction readers into two camps: those who have never heard of him and those who are sick of hearing his oh-so-dysfunctional stories (the latter group being made...
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BookPeople's Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
It’s never too early to start hating the holiday season: crowds at the mall, un-knotting massive tangles of Christmas lights, eggnog hangovers and waking up next to a naked, old, french Santa. Wait, that last one hasn’t happened to you? Apparently that last memory is a gift solely reserved for author Augusten Burroughs who writes [...]
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Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Augusten Burroughs, author of the bestselling memoirs "Running with Scissors" and "A Wolf at the Table," as well as the new holiday-themed "You Better Not Cry," returned to Big Think this week for a second candid conversation. In his previous appearance, Burroughs reflected on the art of memoir , weighed in on the Oprah Effect on American literature, and recounted the...
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About Literature: Contemporary (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
William Golding's The Lord of the Flies illustrated edition Kelly Link's "The Wrong Grave" on Scribd.com Augusten Burroughs reads from You Better Not Cry More about Twitterature The Huffington Post's Scariest Books-Turned-Movies And the latest entrants into the E-book market Friday Endpapers originally appeared on About.com Contemporary Literature on Friday, October 30th, 2009 at 12:24:20....
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
The memoirist does a reading of his latest, "You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas."For more information, call 212-253-0810 or visit www.barnesandnoble.com. ...
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Queerty (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
ON OUR GAYDAR — News, notes, clicks, and quips from around the web. • Andrew Sullivan is raging against White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, giving him an opportunity to name drop Hitler. CONTINUED » Permalink | Post a comment | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: Andrew Sullivan, Ashton Kutcher, Augusten Burroughs, Divorce, Golden Girls, John Marcotte, Maine, Matt Damon, [...]
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Name: Augusten Burroughs Age: 44 Neighborhood: Battery Park City Occupation: Writer. He’ll be reading from his latest holiday collection, You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas , next Monday at the Union Square Barnes & Noble . Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? I like the one who brings me my Philly-cheesesteak sandwiches. He's real. What's the best meal...
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Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Book Details Hardcover, 256 pages 2008, St. Martin's Press ISBN: 0312342020 Synopsis A searing, emotional portrait of a son who wants nothing more than the love his father will not grant him, Burroughs's latest memoir (after 2004's Dry ) is indeed powerful. Absent is the wry humor of Running with Scissors and the absurd poignancy of Burroughs's years living with his mother's Svengali-like psychiatrist....
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Bostonist (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Sunday, October 25 Webcast of Kate DiCamillo reading The Magician’s Elephant, Porter Square Books , 4:00 pm Submit questions to webcast@candlewick.com. 7:00 PM, First Parish Church Meetinghouse (sponsored by Harvard Book Store ), $25 *Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood Monday, October 26 6:00 PM, Brattle Theatre (sponsored by Harvard Book Store ), $5 *Sherman Alexie, War Dances Rawi Hage,...
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