Running with Scissors Augusten Burroughs (St. Martin’s Press) Augusten Burroughs’ childhood was more fucked-up than yours. This point is made over and over again in Running With Scissors, Burroughs’ coming-of-age and coming-out memoir. And while it’s true that stories of dysfunctional families make up the recent memoir craze, this is not another pretentious, dreary weeper. […]
