Victoria Lautman with Richard Russo, photo courtesy Rachelle Bowden.

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Augusten Burroughs

/ November 21, 2004 / Magical Thinking: True Stories

Running with Scissors made Burroughs’ outrageous and scathingly funny personal history accessible to everyone; his next memoir, Dry, took fans on a shocking romp through the world of alcoholism and rehab. But then Burroughs decided to write a collection of essays on a wider range of topics from his seemingly bottomless pit of awkward, bizarre, and hilarious experiences, which he talk about in this equally hilarious interview.

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Victoria Lautman Interviews...

Sherman Alexie Monica Ali Martin Amis Alaa Al Aswany Andrea Barrett Russell Banks Eric Bogosian Augusten Burroughs Peter Carey Susanna Clarke Michael Cunningham Edwidge Danticat Junot Diaz Bret Easton Ellis Nathan Englander Louise Erdrich

Jonathan Safran Foer Mary Gaitskill Julia Glass Adam Gopnik Aleksandar Hemon Alice Hoffman Margo Jefferson Ha Jin Edward P. Jones Elizabeth Kostova Anne Lamott Michael Lowenthal Frank McCourt Jay McInerney James McManus Sue Miller

Anchee Min Sena Jeter Naslund Audrey Niffenegger Susan Orlean Ann Packer Arthur Phillips Richard Price Francine Prose Richard Russo Lionel Shriver Jane Smiley Elizabeth Strout Manil Suri Wells Tower Barry Unsworth David Wroblewski

 

 

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