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Obres de Augusten Burroughs També de Augusten Burroughs Membres amb més obresLulubel (11), SandraBrower (11), indygo88 (10), stephaniecreede (10), Houhoulis (10), GAGVLibrary (10), alk290 (10), Undreya (10), snbm82 (10), johnpasquin (10), robiobinsk (10), benruth (10), foblove86 (10), Kathryn27 (9) — més Afegits fa pocmatt-hunt (2), LambertHouse (2), LynnOber (3), beermanaj (1), ali180 (1), boothbooks (1), dstephenc759 (1), pslamia (1), jasonrkron (1), MelisB (1) Preferits dels membresMembres: mhn, adrianbartholomew, PapaBear21, membre privat, MayaMorrow, sweyenberg, KelAppNic, gjwlinke, awesomepaulsome, LAKobow, otashm, fearless2012, auntiebonna, ZenMoon, FLLiteraryLover, rhoopes, EAG, rebekahmichel, ryosana, granatag (mostra'n 142 més), dougbert76, MyBookGarden, Jasmine.Kumar, Sammy3094, smre88, mossagate, membre privat, jlhorres, ianthes, spaceboot, crazypsychobooklover, Scavokretlaw, libriot, houssan, LisaShoshana, akosikulot-project52, tfm, Michaelakyle, caurban, ddematthews, jeshumphre, JesikaBeth, myxdecemberxstar, jholt914, haze1, DGCountry, lindseypinzy, sally906, KarynB, mdzialo, janna_voss, cem325, YouVandal, membre privat, nearlycivilized, amarie_amh, rebxraylp, donc, strangeinfatuation, BookshelfMonstrosity, amanda_face, phillipjreese, Alex_Cross, PICADOR, dmondavi, Nodressrehearsal, pansy_lane, stoopgirl, TinaBallinger, rozanne, jenyfare, QueenAlyss, happyhinsons, lorimarie, leslievan, Intj_1973, Photohappy, iamkaki, mezmariahz, ledford_house, queeningrid, melancholycat, Megz2812, shaunpekar, MadWordsmith, Mel-O, sarahvirgin, bindzywindzy91, pwagner2, palaripub, niteswimming, lestat1987, theredebis, HannahHolborn, kaykos, marloween, membre privat, bookwormjulie, kellephant, membre privat, PerpetualQuestions, alk290, Shanaz, youngcc4, wjwhitmore, membre privat, sonyagreen, iamaluckycharm, liiindzzzz, Livenlearn, sarayoung, pinksky, dawsong, literarypanda, Seattlite, twelve, photogrrrl, kristinamarie, queenamini, janeanger, bookarts, ijustgetbored, cgm707, Katie_H, vuhwex, Evangeline, ktgraham, jaltergott23, Kowabunga, kblume26, gforce7, cafepithecus, roseofmalice, carmarie, dawnlovesbooks, willkilby, dcoward, rachelle-a-tron, Persephone777, Neatnic, eeastburn, inkedone, GreenVelvet, Jebbie74, ShellyS, lisamorgan, loverswalk, arijin, SmoothMoves, phillyexpat, cialia, carriebrady, bigmissy6, boyoutcast, vivalivre, beautifulsoup, redwood5, membre privat, liberryn2, marls, membre privat, stricken
Augusten Burroughs té 25 esdeveniments ja passats. (show)  Milner Book Club Location: Board Room, 3rd Floor Join fellow readers the last Friday of every month, 12 noon, for our lively discussion about books, movies, culture, current events and anything else that pops up for discussion. Lots of fun and everyone welcome. The next meeting will occur on November 28th. The books we’ll be delving into are, firstly, the runaway smash bestseller The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion, about an orderly man, a whirlwind of a woman, and undoubtedly hijinks. Keeping the tone relatively light, our second book will be Augusten Burroughs’ collection of humourous essays Running With Scissors.
For free reading copies and more information, please call Diego at 780-496-7000 or send an e-mail to: dibarra@epl.ca (DiegoIbarra)… (més)
 Gay Men's Reading Group: Running with Scissors Join us for a reading group discussion of Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs! Left Bank Books (downstairs) The author of Sellevision describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a fake suicide attempt, a pedophile's life in a barn, and front-lawn family/patient sleepovers.
Parking: Lots one block north and one block east; street parking (meters free after 7pm)
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Location: Street: Left Bank Books Additional: 399 N. Euclid Ave. City: Saint Louis, Province: Missouri Postal Code: 63108 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)
 Running with Scissors (Literary Sojourn Author Study Series) Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve , Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients, and a pedophile living in the backyard shed completed the tableau. Here, there were no rules, there was no school. The Christmas tree stayed up until summer,and Valium was eaten like Pez. And when things got dull, there was always the vintage electroshock therapy machine under the stairs....
Running with Scissors is at turns foul and harrowing, compelling and maniacally funny. But above all, it chronicles an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances. Running with Scissors Acknowledgments Gratitude doesn't begin to describe it: Jennifer Enderlin, Christopher Schelling, John Murphy, Gregg Sullivan, Kim Cardascia, Michael Storrings, and everyone at St. Martin's Press. Thank you: Lawrence David, Suzanne Finnamore, Robert Rodi, Bret Easton Ellis, Jon Pepoon, Lee Lodes, Jeff Soares, Kevin Weidenbacher, Lynda Pearson, Lona Walburn, Lori Greenburg, John DePretis, and Sheila Cobb. I would also like to express my appreciation to my mother and father for, no matter how inadvertently, giving me such a memorable childhood. Additionally, I would like to thank the real-life members of the family portrayed in this book for taking me into their home and accepting me as one of their own. I recognize that their memories of the events described in this book are different than my own. They are each fine, decent, and hard-working people. The book was not intended to hurt the family. Both my publisher and I regret any unintentional harm resulting from the publishing and marketing of Running with Scissors. Most of all, I would like to thank my brother for demonstrating, by example, the importance of being wholly unique.
About Literary Sojourn Author Study
The Literary Sojourn Author Study is a series of book discussion programs designed to enhance the experience of reading for this year's Literary Sojourn. Participants read and discuss works from each of the featured authors prior to the live event on Oct. 5, 2013. Bud Werner Memorial Library's Michelle Dover facilitates the free discussions and the study is limited to 12 participants per meeting. Register for this session online or call Michelle at 970-367-4907.
Location: Street: Bud Werner Library Additional: Conference Room - Administration Wing City: Steamboat Springs, Province: Colorado Postal Code: 80487 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)
 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 (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)
 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 (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)
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 (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)
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 (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)
 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 (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)
Ivy Hall Writers Series Augusten Burroughs llegeix 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)… (més)
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)… (més)
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