Improbable, hilarious and true, 'Running with Scissors' was a confessional stand-up routine enlivened by painful slaps of candor. When it appeared in 2002, it made its author, Augusten Burroughs, a literary celebrity, a status he has built upon with his subsequent works: a memoir about his addictions Dry, two collections of essays Magical Thinking and Possible Side Effects and a novel Sellivision.
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