![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His earlier books also help make his first foray into the realm of self-help texts, This is How, a worthwhile and surprising one. Burroughs writes as a man who highlights the extremes of his life in all their traumatic detail, and these memoirs imply it’s a surprise he’s survived long enough to write these accounts at all. Even attempting to partially catalog the hardships of Burroughs’ younger years would make for an exhausting list - his upbringing included a family taxed by mental illness, the psychiatrist that adopted him into chaos, a life-threatening bout with alchoholism and the drawn out death of a beloved former partner due to complications from HIV. ![]() In fact, all of his books except for Sellevision are memoirs, and these all find a curious and heartfelt balance between highlighting (his) life’s brutal challenges and the dark humor that saturates those moments. For most readers, Augusten Burroughs will forever be remembered as the memoirist that wrote Running With Scissors, the hilarious and devastating account of his childhood that was later adapted into a feature film. ![]()
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