Running With Scissors chronicled Burroughs’s childhood with his delusional mother who, when he was 12, sent him away to be raised by Dr. Sellevision was well received and Running With Scissors and Dry both appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. Yet one day, I decided that's exactly what I would do.” And he did. “The gap between active alcoholic advertising copywriter living in squalor and literary sensation with a scrapbook of rave reviews seemed large. 'I decided to stop being an alcoholic and become a New York Times bestselling author,” Burroughs writes in his new book. Magical Thinking is his fourth book in as many years, taking its place alongside Sellevision, his satirical novel about cable television’s home shopping networks, and his memoirs, Running With Scissors and Dry. And who’s to say he doesn’t? Having survived a tumultuous childhood and an early career as an advertising copywriter while struggling with alcoholism, Burroughs-now a bestselling author-has indeed controlled his world. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a Higher Power.I believe I control the world with my mind, Augusten Burroughs writes in the title essay of his new collection, Magical Thinking: True Stories, published by St. What follows is a memoir that's as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is true. 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. are immediately dashed by grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. At the request (well, it wasn't really a request) of his employers, Augusten lands in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey Jr. 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 twentysomething guy, nice suit, works in advertising.

You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs.

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