If you're fat and fail every diet, if you're thin but can't get thin enough, if you lose your job, if your child dies, if you are diagnosed with cancer, if you always end up with exactly the wrong kind of person, if you always end up alone, if you can't get over the past, if your parents are insane and ruining your life, if you really and truly wish you were dead, if you feel like it's your destiny to be a star, if you believe life has a grudge against you, if you don't want to have sex with your spouse and don't know why, if you feel so ashamed, if you're lost in life, if you have ever wondered, How am I supposed to survive this? This is How.Ĭlick here to listen to Susan Larson's wonderful interview of Augusten Burroughs from this week's broadcast of 'The Reading Life'ĪUGUSTEN BURROUGHS is the number one New York Times bestselling author of A Wolf at the Table, Possible Side Effects, Magical Thinking, Dry, Running with Scissors, and Sellevision. “This darkly funny self-help tract is like a mental tickle attack.” -Self

“All of the wisdom he dispenses in his new book-delivered with the dark,Īcidic humor we’ve come to expect-is certainly well-earned.” -The Boston Globe “The last self-help book you’ll ever read.” -The Huffington Post In a statement issued by their attorneys, the family said that both settlements 'have achieved everything we set out to accomplish.Join us for what promises to be a very special evening with Augusten Burroughs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running With Scissors, when he comes to Octavia Books to present and sign THIS IS HOW, his groundbreaking book that explores how to survive what you think you can't. Ten months prior to yesterday’s settlement, Sony Pictures Entertainment, which produced a film based on the book, avoided a lawsuit from the family with a 'mutually resolved' agreement.

Though the family name was changed to 'Finch' in the book, the Turcottes claimed that the resemblance is apparent, and that Burroughs revealed their identity in interviews. Martin’s Press agreed to remove 'memoirs' from the author’s note in the book and add an acknowledgement from Burroughs stating that the Turcotte family’s recollection of events is 'different than my own' and apologizing for 'any unintentional harm' done to the family.

'Running with Scissors' remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over two consecutive years and was made into a Golden Globe. The Turcotte family, with whom Burroughs lived as a teenager, filed suit two years ago seeking over $2 million in damages for defamation.Īccording to Howard Cooper, the family’s attorney, St. Augusten Burroughs is the author of the autobiographical works 'Running with Scissors,' 'Dry,' 'Magical Thinking,' 'Possible Side Effects' and 'A Wolf at the Table,' all of which were New York Times bestsellers. Martin’s Press, 2002) settled their lawsuit against the author and his publisher. On Wednesday, the family portrayed in Augusten Burroughs’s book Running With Scissors (St.

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