He has since published four additional autobiographical volumes (Dry, Possible Side Effects, Magical Thinking and A Wolf at the Table), all of them bestsellers. The film, starring Annette Benning, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jill Clayburgh and Alec Baldwin was released in 2005.
The memoir would ultimately remain on the New York Times bestseller list for over four consecutive years, eight months of which were spent in the #1 position. Running with Scissors was released in 2001 to virtually unanimous critical acclaim. It was also a publishing phenomenon that helped to ignite a kind of memoir fever in America and abroad. It is currently in development as a feature film.Īugusten's second book was a memoir. And Sellevision stands as Burroughs's only published novel.
Never outlining or consciously structuring the book, Burroughs wrote, "as fast as I could type, to keep up." Seven days later, Augusten Burroughs had written his first book. But spurned by a compulsion he did not understand, Burroughs began to write a novel. A very successful advertising copywriter for over seventeen years, he was also an alcoholic who nearly drank himself to death in 1999. What follows is a memoir that's as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real.Īugusten Burroughs born Christopher Robison, son of poet and writer Margaret Robison and younger brother of John Elder Robison.īurroughs has no formal education beyond elementary school.
Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan life and live it sober. 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. 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. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs.
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