"Here's a partial list of things I don't believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Life after death. Vampires. Zombies. Reiki. Homeopathy. Rolfing. Reflexology.

Augusten Burroughs has had an eventful life. Since the 2002 debut of his dysfunctional-childhood memoir “Running with Scissors,” Burroughs has written four more memoirs. His most recent, “Toil & ...

Augusten Burroughs, read by the author. Macmillan Audio, , unabridged, 7 CDs, 9 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-7068-9 Over the past decade and a half, Burroughs has established himself as a leading ...

St. Martin’s Press; 240 pp. Augusten Burroughs appears at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro on Friday, May 11, at 7 p.m. The event is sponsored by Flyleaf Books; tickets are $3, or free with advance purchase ...

Click the picture above to hear the audio. Master memoirist Augusten Burroughs will be in Seattle on Sat, Oct 12 promoting his bewitching new book Toil & Trouble, on sale now. Burroughs has held ...

The writer Augusten Burroughs doesn't shy away from deeply personal, messy events. In his hit "Running With Scissors," he describes a bizarre childhood in which his mentally unstable mother sends him ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But, in the first of several phone conversations this past spring, Burroughs tells me that his goal in putting his harrowing past ...

It’s called “Toil & Trouble” but “Bait & Switch” is more like it. Despite a title that references the cauldron speech in “Macbeth,” a pre-Halloween release date and marketing that positions it as the ...

Sometimes life hands us gift-wrapped shit. And we’re like, “This isn’t a gift; it’s shit. Screw you.” One such gift comes with the wrapping paper known as limits. Oh, how we hate limits. Limits hold ...

We asked addiction experts and people in recovery to share the titles they found most useful. By Hope Reese From their studios, ateliers, film sets and kitchens — and even the White House — these ...

Augusten Burroughs is one of America's most successful memoirists. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with him about his latest book, Lust & Wonder. The writer Augusten Burroughs doesn't shy away from deeply ...