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Augusten Burroughs has 23 past events. (show)  Augusten Burroughs -- This is How -- Gables From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes a groundbreaking book by Augusten Burroughs that explores how to survive what you think you can't. If you're fat and fail every diet, if you're thin but can't get thin enough, if you lose your job, if your child dies, if you are diagnosed with cancer, if you always end up with exactly the wrong kind of person, if you always end up alone, if you can't get over the past, if your parents are insane and ruining your life, if you really and truly wish you were dead, if you feel like it's your destiny to be a star, if you believe life has a grudge against you, if you don't want to have sex with your spouse and don't know why, if you feel so ashamed, if you're lost in life. If you have ever wondered, How am I supposed to survive this? This is how.
Location: Street: 265 Aragon Ave City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Augusten Burroughs - THIS IS HOW: Surviving What You Think You Can't Join us for what promises to be a very special evening with Augusten Burroughs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors, when he comes to Octavia Books to present and sign This Is How, his groundbreaking book that explores how to survive what you think you can't. “The last self-help book you’ll ever read.”—The Huffington Post
“All of the wisdom he dispenses in his new book—delivered with the dark, acidic humor we’ve come to expect—is certainly well-earned.”—The Boston Globe
“This darkly funny self-help tract is like a mental tickle attack.”—Self
If you're fat and fail every diet, if you're thin but can't get thin enough, if you lose your job, if your child dies, if you are diagnosed with cancer, if you always end up with exactly the wrong kind of person, if you always end up alone, if you can't get over the past, if your parents are insane and ruining your life, if you really and truly wish you were dead, if you feel like it's your destiny to be a star, if you believe life has a grudge against you, if you don't want to have sex with your spouse and don't know why, if you feel so ashamed, if you're lost in life, if you have ever wondered, How am I supposed to survive this? This Is How.
Augusten Burroughs is the number one New York Times bestselling author of A Wolf at the Table, Possible Side Effects, Magical Thinking, Dry, Running with Scissors, and Sellevision. He lives in Manhattan.
Location: Street: 513 Octavia St City: New Orleans, Province: Louisiana Postal Code: 70115-2055 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Famed Memoirist August Burroughs Presents his book This is How at the University of New Mexico, Dane Smith Hall Room 125 If you're fat and fail every diet, if you're thin but can't get thin enough, if you lose your job, if your child dies, if you are diagnosed with cancer, if you always end up with exactly the wrong kind of person, if you always end up alone, if you can't get over the past, if your parents are insane and ruining your life, if you really and truly wish you were dead, if you feel like it's your destiny to be a star, if you believe life has a grudge against you, if you don't want to have sex with your spouse and don't know why, if you feel so ashamed, if you're lost in life. If you have ever wondered, How am I supposed to survive this? This Is How.
Location: Street: University of New Mexico Additional: Dane Smith Hall Rm 125 City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)Augusten Burroughs: This is How *at Portland Public Library* This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't by Augusten Burroughs Thursday, April 25th, 7:00pm at the Portland Public Library From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes a groundbreaking book by Augusten Burroughs that explores how to survive what you think you can't. If you're fat and fail every diet, if you're thin but can't get thin enough, if you lose your job, if your child dies, if you are diagnosed with cancer, if you always end up with exactly the wrong kind of person, if you always end up alone, if you can't get over the past, if your parents are insane and ruining your life, if you really and truly wish you were dead, if you feel like it's your destiny to be a star, if you believe life has a grudge against you, if you don't want to have sex with your spouse and don't know why, if you feel so ashamed, if you're lost in life. If you have ever wondered, How am I supposed to survive this? This Is How. "The last self-help book you'll ever read." -Janice Harper, The Huffington Post “Hilarious and searingly straight forward ... Burroughs turns the self-help genre upside-down." -Publishers Weekly Join us for this special reading to celebrate the paperback release of Augusten Burrough's bestselling This Is How. Augusten will read in the Rines Auditorium at the Portland Public Library so we can accomodate more fans but we will be on hand selling books and getting your copies signed!
Location: Street: 5 Monument Square Additional: Rines Auditorium, Portland Public Library City: Portland, Province: Maine Postal Code: 04101-4078 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Brockport Writers Forum presents the Art of Fact Award to Augusten Burroughs Burroughs was born Christopher Robison in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the younger of two sons to poet Margaret Robison and John G. Robison, former head of the philosophy department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the younger brother of fellow memoirist John Elder Robison. His parents divorced on July 29, 1978, when Burroughs was twelve years old, and he was adopted by his mother's psychiatrist who resided in the Northampton area.
Burroughs dropped out of school after the sixth grade and obtained a GED at age 17. He chose his name at age 18, and legally changed it in Boston.He later enrolled at Holyoke Community College in Holyoke, Massachusetts as a pre-med student, dropping out before the end of the first semester. He decided to settle in New York.
His books are published by St. Martin's Press and Picador. Some of his childhood experiences were chronicled in Running with Scissors (2002), which was later developed into a film. In addition to Scissors, Burroughs penned a second memoir, Dry (2003), about his experience during and after treatment for alcoholism. It was followed by two collections of memoir essays, Magical Thinking (2003) and Possible Side Effects (2006). His first novel, Sellevision (2000), is currently in production as a feature film.
Location: Street: Temple B'rith Kodesh Additional: 2131 Elmwood Ave City: Rochester, Province: New York Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)Ivy Hall Writers Series Augusten Burroughs reads from You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas. Augusten Burroughs, twice honored by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 25 funniest people in America, puts his unique spin on the holidays in his latest book, a collection of stories, You Better Not Cry. Combining childhood innocence and confusion with a melancholy, deeper truth, the book delves into homelessness, alcoholism and, finally, an unlikely redemption. In his first novel, Sellivision, Burroughs chronicled his 17-year advertising career and near-fatal bout with alcoholism. His memoir, Running with Scissors, remained on the New York Times bestseller list for more than four years and led to the popular feature film of the same title. His subsequent autobiographical works include Dry, Possible Side Effects, Magical Thinking and A Wolf at the Table, all bestsellers. The lecture is free and open to the public. A book signing follows the lecture. Book sales are available by personal check or cash sales only. For more information e-mail Georgia Lee or call 404.253.3206. (kidzdoc)… (more) Augusten Burroughs Augusten Burroughs , A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father. Malaprop's welcomes celebrated author Augusten Burroughs as he reads from and signs his book, A Wolf at the Table. Burrough's latest memoir explores the dark relationship he had as a boy with his father. **This is a ticketed event. Each purchase of A Wolf at the Table receives one ticket. Unfortunately, we cannot mail tickets out but can hold paid tickets until the end of the event. Please ask a bookseller if you have any questions.** (booksense)… (more) Augusten Burroughs Augusten Burroughs , A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father. Memoirist Augusten Burroughs will read from and sign copies of his book, Wolf at the Table, which is newly available in paperback. This latest memoir (from the author of Running with Scissors and Dry) is a searing, emotional portrait of a son who wants nothing more than the love his father will not grant him. Painted with unwavering honesty, Burroughs focuses on the years he lived both in awe and fear of his philosophy professor father. (booksense)… (more) The Center/Books Inc. Book Group Meeting for September augusten burroughs, Dry: A Memoir. Books Inc. in the Castro in association with the SF LGBT Center and Three Dollar Bill Café is pleased to announce our next Book Group selection: Dry, by Augusten Burroughs. From the best-selling author of "Running with Scissors" comes "Dry"--the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next.
You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had to drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn't really a request) of his employers, Augusten landed in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that's when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan life--and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that's as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. "Dry" is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a higher power.
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Our next Book Group meeting is Wednesday, September 10th at 7 PM at the Three Dollar Bill Café at the LGBT Center, 1800 Market St. (@ Octavia). As always, I'd like everyone to come with any observations they may have as well as at least one question to pose to the group. Also, please come equipped with any title suggestions for our next joint venture. Hope to see you there. The Center/Books Inc. Book Group is free and open to everyone. We encourage inclusiveness and promote diversity. We meet the 2nd Wednesday of every month.
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