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Augusten Burroughs has 18 past events. (show) Ivy Hall (SCAD - Savannah College of Art & Design): Ivy Hall Writers Series (November 4, 2009 at) 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 ... (more)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.
Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe: Augusten Burroughs (April 10, 2009 at) 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, ... (more)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.**
The Regulator Bookshop: Augusten Burroughs (April 9, 2009 at) 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 ... (more)him. Painted with unwavering honesty, Burroughs focuses on the years he lived both in awe and fear of his philosophy professor father.
Vanderbilt University. Blair School of Music. Anne Potter Wilson Music Library: augusten burroughs (April 8, 2009 at) Event held in Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University.
SF LGBT Center: The Center/Books Inc. Book Group Meeting for September (September 10, 2008 at) 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 ... (more)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. * * * 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. * * * Books Inc. is a locally owned and operated independent bookseller with 10 locations in California. Books Inc.'s origin dates back to the Gold Rush Days of 1851 when Anton Roman struck it rich in Shasta City, California and set himself up in business selling books. That small bookstore was moved, bought, sold, burned, rebuilt, renamed and became Books Inc., as we know it today, in 1946. Today, with 10 Stores and 200 employees, Books Inc. serves as a shining example that independent bookselling can survive and prosper, even if we must dance among the elephants. This Event is Free at the Three Dollar Bill Café within the SF LGBT Center Sponsored by Books Inc. 2275 Market St. San Francisco 94114 For Questions:415.864.6777 or on the web at www.booksinc.net and www.myspace.com/booksinccastro Shearer's Bookshop: Augusten Burroughs (August 27, 2008 at) Augusten Burroughs is the bestselling author of 'Possible Side Effects', 'Magical Thinking', 'Dry', 'Running with Scissors', and 'Sellevision'. His new memoir 'A Wolf at the Table', is written with brutal honesty and psychologically penetrating insight. Please call Shearer's on 9572 7766 to book. Event location: Palace Norton St Cinema
Broadside Bookshop: Augusten Burroughs Reads from His New New Memoir (July 1, 2008 at) Augusten Burroughs will read from A Wolf at the Table, his newly-published memoir about his father.
Food for Thought Books: Augusten Burroughs (June 26, 2008 at) Augusten Burroughs reads from A Wolf at the Table. "With A Wolf at the Table, Augusten Burroughs makes a quantum leap into untapped emotional terrain: the radical pendulum swing between love and hate, the unspeakably terrifying relationship between father and son. Told with scorching honesty and penetrating insight, it is a story for anyone who ... (more)has ever longed for unconditional love from a parent. Though harrowing and brutal, A Wolf at the Table will ultimately leave you buoyed with the profound joy of simply being alive. It's a memoir of stunning psychological cruelty and the redemptive power of hope."
Printers Row Lit Fest: Augusten Burroughs (June 8, 2008 at) Event location: Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State Street, Pritzker Auditorium
Brighton Festival: Augusten Burroughs (May 25, 2008 at) £7.50 Augusten Burroughs' best-selling memoir Running with Scissors redefined a genre with its left-field take on a childhood in freefall. Hilarious, sardonic and relentlessly eccentric, it thrust its creator into celebrity orbit, dominating the bestseller charts for four years and spawning the big-screen ... (more)treatment c/o Paltrow, Benning, Baldwin and co. His latest off beat exposé A Wolf at the Table explores his troubled relationship with his philosopher father. A rare UK visit from a bona fide US maverick! Event location: Pavilion Theatre
Waterstone's Piccadilly: An evening with Augusten Burroughs (May 22, 2008 at) Tickets £3, redeemable against the purchase of the book on the evening. For further details call 020 7851 2400.
Bryant Park Word for Word - Author / Bookclub / Poetry / etc.: Augusten Burroughs (May 21, 2008 at) In his first full-length memoir since Dry, New York Times bestselling author, Augusten Burroughs, now takes readers into the most unexpected recesses of his psyche to introduce an imposing shadow that has haunted him for most of his life. Fans of Augusten's previous books won't want to miss the chance ... (more)to get up-close-and-personal with the author.
Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop - Downer Avenue: Augusten Burroughs (May 17, 2008 at) Augusten Burroughs reads from A Wolf At The Table. Augusten Burroughs returns to Schwartz with his most personal and unexpected memoir yet. In A Wolf at the Table, he explores the radical pendulum swing between love and hate, the unspeakably terrifying relationship between father and son, and a child’s longing for unconditional love. Here is the story ... (more)of Burroughs’s relationship with his father told with honesty and insight; a story of the redemptive power of hope.
Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Skokie - Old Orchard: Augusten Burroughs (May 15, 2008 at)
DePaul University Bookstore - DePaul Center: Augusten Burroughs (May 15, 2008 at) A New Memoir from Augusten Burroughs
When Augusten Burroughs released 2002's Running with Scissors -- his memoir about growing up in the mother of all dysfunctional families -- readers didn't know whether to drop their jaws in horror or hold their stomachs from laughing. Whatever reactions he gets ... (more)from readers, Burroughs's gift for dishing on all things stranger than fiction has made him a bestselling author. Augusten Burroughs continues along these lines with his now book, A Wolf at the Table - which chronicles his relationship and experiences with his Father. A booksigning will follow. Please visit www.augustenburroughs.com for more information on the author. Location: The Concourse @ DePaul Center Books Inc. in the Castro: Augusten Burroughs at Books Inc in the Castro (May 12, 2008 at) New York BestSelling author Augusten Burroughs, will be reading selections from his long awaited new novel, "A WOLF AT THE TABLE: A Memoir of my father" at Books Inc in Castro
In his first full-length memoir since Dry, Augusten Burroughs, now takes readers into the most unexpected recesses of ... (more)his psyche to introduce an imposing shadow that has haunted him for most of his life in A WOLF AT THE TABLE: A Memoir of My Father. Burroughs opens old wounds, exposing the rot and chaos of psychological abuse, cruelty, and abandonment he experienced at the hands of his distant, alcoholic father. In some of his earliest memories, Augusten recalls excitedly anticipating his father’s arrival home from work as a philosophy professor in Massachusetts. The young Augusten would create art projects to impress his father and even once dressed like a dog to hopefully garner the same affection the family pet received from the man he admits he loved, at least in the beginning. For his efforts, Augusten was often met at the door with utter disregard, disgust, and sometimes even chilling rebukes. “I was losing against the Arms,” Burroughs writes sadly of his inability to get near enough to his father for a hug. In one moment of desperation, Augusten snuck his father’s clothes from drawers and closets and stuffed them with towels and his own bed sheet to create a headless, footless, scarecrow-like father surrogate. “Tenderly, being mindful not to dislodge the torso from the legs and spoil the illusion, I crawled into bed beside the body, turned on my side and curled against it….It was an acceptable substitute.” Balancing life with a doting, yet unstable mother, an unpredictable older brother, and his volatile father, Augusten agonized over the menacing thought that he may one day grow up to be just like his dad. Amidst the raucous fights between his parents, the suspicious deaths of his childhood pets, and his own angst and despair, Augusten fantasized about killing his father. A WOLF AT THE TABLE is the heart-rending memoir of one man’s struggle to rationalize his turbulent childhood. It is an untapped chapter of Augusten Burroughs’ life, through which he, as a child, fumbles through the space between love and hate, adoration and abhorrence, and life and death. This is Burroughs at his most uncompromising and most vulnerable. Book goes on sale April 29th. We will be giving out tickets that will admit one person per ticket for each book that is sold here AT THIS BOOKS INC. LOCATION ONLY (Market St.). The tickets are numbered, so there will be no need to line up early. People with ticket will receive preferred seating. About Augusten Burroughs: Augusten Burroughs is the New York Times Bestselling Author of Possible Side Effects, Magical Thinking, Dry, Running With Scissors, and Sellevision. He lives in New York City and Western Massachusetts. * * * Books Inc. is a locally owned and operated independent bookseller with 10 locations in California. Books Inc.’s origin dates back to the Gold Rush Days of 1851 when Anton Roman struck it rich in Shasta City, California and set himself up in business selling books. That small bookstore was moved, bought, sold, burned, rebuilt, renamed and became Books Inc., as we know it today, in 1946. Today, with 10 Stores and 200 employees, Books Inc. serves as a shining example that independent bookselling can survive and prosper, even if we must dance among the elephants. This Event is Free at Books Inc. 2275 Market St. San Francisco 94114 For Questions: 415.864.6777 or on the web at www.booksinc.net and www.myspace.com/booksinccastro Capitola Book Cafe: Augusten Burroughs (May 11, 2008 at) No ticket required. Seating will be limited. Admission may be limited if response is strong! Doors open at 4:30pm.
Book Soup: Augusten Burroughs (May 9, 2008 at) When Augusten Burroughs was small, his father was a shadowy presence in his life: a form on the stairs, a cough from the basement, a silent figure smoking a cigarette in the dark. As Augusten grew older, something sinister within his father began to unfurl. Something dark and secretive that could not ... (more)be named. Betrayal after shocking betrayal ensued, and Augusten's childhood was over. The kind of father he wanted didn't exist for him. This father was distant, aloof, uninterested... And then the "games" began. With A Wolf at the Table, Augusten Burroughs makes a quantum leap into untapped emotional terrain: the radical pendulum swing between love and hate, the unspeakably terrifying relationship between father and son. Told with scorching honesty and penetrating insight, it is a story for anyone who has ever longed for unconditional love from a parent. Though harrowing and brutal, A Wolf at the Table will ultimately leave you buoyed with the profound joy of simply being alive. It's a memoir of stunning psychological cruelty and the redemptive power of hope. This event will be held at the Fine Arts Theater, 8556 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211 (one block west of La Cienega on Wilshire Blvd.). This is a free event and open to the public. There are no tickets or reservations. First-come, first-serve. Doors at 6:30 PM. Event location: Fine Arts Theater, 8556 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211
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