...of the key questions in Augusten Burroughs' new memoir, alongside why did his mother have a breakdown and what really happened to the family guinea pig, is: did he help his father bury a body in the woods one night? The "memory" is actually a dream he had...
...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 suggests, that...
...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 the best-selling memoirs,...
...A Memoir of My Father," is ready for the skeptics.AP On the book tour for "A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father," Augusten Burroughs is ready for the skeptics. The "Running With Scissors" author is the first to broach the subject, mockingly referring...
...FEUD: Augusten Burroughs confronts his father's ghost in The Wolf at the Table. The ghosts of their fathers haunt Augusten Burroughs and Rick Bragg. But that's not all the writers have in common, despite their profound differences. Burroughs and Bragg are...
...writer Augusten Burroughs is known for his witty memoirs that combine bizarre personal history with delightfully ironic bon mots about his life, which makes his newest book, “A Wolf at the Table,” such a departure. This latest memoir focuses exclusively on...
...thinking of directing himself. "I haven't announced anything officially yet," he says, "but that's a pot on the fire." FATHER KNOWS BEAST. Augusten Burroughs' latest memoir looks at his relationship with his alcoholic and emotionally crippling father. ...
...the sob-story has become de rigeur in the literary world, sometimes with catastrophically embellished results. Augusten Burroughs’ new memoir A Wolf at the Table rings mostly true, with a few passages that have a distorted, dreamlike quality about them; rather...
...kookiness of her psychiatrist's family. A Wolf at the Table shifts our attention to his late father, John G. Robison ("Augusten Burroughs" is a pseudonym). In one of the first scenes, Burroughs recalls traveling with his mother, who tells him that it's "dangerous"...
...42 Augusten Burroughs is the first to admit he has written “more memoirs than anyone my age should be entitled to write.” Augusten Burroughs, whose new book comes out Tuesday. Mr. Burroughss father, John Robison, a philosophy professor at the University of...