by Kilian Melloy
EDGE Contributor
Thursday Jul 3, 2008
Memoirs that break your heart are commonplace; the sob-story has become de rigeur in the literary world, sometimes with catastrophically embellished results. Augusten Burroughs’...
If that fucking Tumblr is oversharing, then so is writing a goddamn novel. It's just some random fucking quotes that I sorta thought summarized a certain kind of feeling, aesthetic, angst at this particular historical moment.
I don't like...
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...
On Father's Day, we pay tribute to the men who are half responsible for our existence. The Ten Commandments exhort us to "honor thy father," but we might also reflect on the human failings that have made our relationships with our dads unique,...
Augusten Burroughs' latest book addresses his fearful childhood.
With the publication of his third memoir in six years, Augusten Burroughs has had plenty of time and more than enough reason to contemplate the nature of perception.
Imagine, he...
Augusten Burroughs didn't follow the path most educators recommend for prospective writers: "Do well in high school, go to college, don't do drugs or alcohol..."
But Burroughs, 42, didn't follow any of that advice.
And it led him to write...
Background
Augusten Xon Burroughs (born Christopher Robison on October 23, 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American writer known for his New York Times bestselling memoir Running with Scissors (2002), which spawned a feature film of the same name.
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