![]() ![]() ![]() It was a train wreck with clowns, and the hordes couldn’t get enough.ĭisputes over the memoir’s truthfulness, including a defamation lawsuit that Burroughs and his lawyers settled out of court in 2007, didn’t faze Burroughs or his publisher, who brought out “Dry,” “A Wolf at the Table,” “Magical Thinking” and others.Īn NPR commentator cited the “excruciating hilarity” that helped “Scissors” find a big readership. There may not be tons of people who experienced a childhood as scarifying as the one Burroughs depicts in “Scissors,” but the book turned family dysfunction, squalor, neglect, sex abuse and mental illness into an extreme sport, and did so with a mordant sense of humor and the absurd. Since breaking out in 2002 with “Running With Scissors,” Augusten Burroughs has kept the bestselling memoirs coming, tapping the seemingly bottomless market of those willing to buy tickets to someone else’s catastrophes. ![]()
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