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Running with Scissors

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  1. "Weird Al:" The Poet of Our GenerationRead the original story w/Photo

    Yesterday | The San Francisco Foghorn

    ... you finish thine/Then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699." In "The Saga Begins" off of 1999's Running with Scissors , Don McLean's "American Pie" becomes the tune for a vivid retelling of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace . Weird Al ...

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  2. Audio Books - Diverse Christmas treatsRead the original story

    Saturday | Winston-Salem Journal

    ... lies inside. Burroughs, who has made a small fortune off his childhood of misery via memoirs such as Running With Scissors , has a distinctive literary voice that is alternately whiny and nasty. Matters aren't helped by the author choosing to read ...

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    Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Christmas, Entertainment

  3. Running With Scissors Presents Silent Night of the LambsRead the original story w/Photo

    Friday Dec 4 | BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content

    Put on your parkas and shi Ne Yo ur snow boots: Running With Scissors is heading north for the holidays - waaaaay north! We're flying far above the Arctic Circle, to the land of Santa Claus, sleigh bells, and suspense, with Ryan Landry's camp comedy, SILENT NIGHT OF THE LAMBS! Life on the North Pole ain't what it used to be: Rudolph's long gone, ...

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    Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Life, Holidays, Christmas, New Orleans, LA

  4. Christmas invite from Augusten Burroughs: Review

    Friday Dec 4 | Xtra.ca

    ... in a different league altogether. Such was the fate of Augusten Burroughs, the best-selling author of Running with Scissors. It's the basis for one of the holiday-themed tales in his new volume of short stories, You Better Not Cry. "This was a new ...

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    Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Christmas, Pop/Rock

  5. Keeping 'Glee' in tuneRead the original story

    Friday Dec 4 | Variety

    Music supervisor PJ Bloom had worked with writer-director-producer Ryan Murphy on the series "Popular" and "Nip/Tuck" and the film "Running With Scissors." But Bloom was bemused when Murphy told him about his new project.

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    Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, Pop/Rock, Online Music, Laughlin, NV, John Lennon

  6. Funny and touching short stories of holidays past and pretendRead the original story

    Thursday Dec 3 | Star-telegram.com

    ... Burroughs St. Martin's Press, $21.99 What it's about: As in his bestseller Running With Scissors , Burroughs mines his life, telling stories that combine sweet, shocking and scandalous observations. There are seven short ...

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  7. Augusten's Twisted Christmas MemoriesRead the original story

    Thursday Dec 3 | Advocate

    ... life is a jarring juxtaposition of tragic and comic is something apparent in his colossal achievement, Running With Scissors, and the parallel leitmotif can be found in these holiday-themed essays. When reached in New York, where he lives, hea TMs ...

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    Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Christmas, Dothan, AL

  8. Holiday tales set the moodRead the original story

    Wednesday Dec 2 | Clover Herald

    ... pages, $21.99) Burroughs is the master of making tragedy funny, with memoirs of a dark childhood in "Running With Scissors" and alcoholism in "Dry." "You Better Not Cry" is no exception. Burroughs follows his own strange relationship with Christmas ...

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    Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Christmas

  9. Silent Night of the LambsRead the original story w/Photo

    Monday Nov 30 | Best of New Orleans

    ... and Dorian Rush star as Santa Claus and Clarice Starling in Silent Night of the Lambs. The cast of Running With Scissors is running through a rehearsal of Silent Night of the Lambs , a holiday-wrapped Silence of the Lambs set in the North Pole. ...

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    Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Christmas, Drama Movies, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Elizabeth Taylor, New Orleans, LA

  10. Augusten Burroughs on surviving the holidaysRead the original story

    Sunday Nov 29 | Chicago Sun-Times

    His chaotic upbringing, documented in his debut book, Running With Scissors, made him a poster boy for survivors of dysfunctional families, so it's not a bit surprising that Augusten Burroughs tackles what is for many the mother of all dysfunctional periods, the Christmas holidays, in his latest book, You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas .

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    Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Christmas

  11. Novel offers holiday irreveranceRead the original story

    Sunday Nov 29 | The Star Press Muncie News

    ... Some take readers to familiar terrain -- Burroughs' childhood, so vividly captured in his debut memoir Running with Scissors -- while others give us a glimpse of his adult life as a best-selling, middle-aged writer living with his partner in western ...

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  12. Running with Scissors

    Tuesday Nov 24 | San Diego Reader

    Splashy feature debut for the man behind the cable-television series Nip/Tuck , writer-director Ryan Murphy, a hey-look-at-me cannonball, adapted from the "memoir" of Augusten Burroughs.

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  13. Burroughs gets in spiritRead the original story

    Sunday Nov 22 | Worcester Telegram & Gazette

    ... Some take readers to familiar terrain - Burroughs' childhood, so vividly captured in his debut memoir 'Running with Scissors' - while others give us a glimpse of his adult life as a best-selling, middle-aged writer living with his partner in Western ...

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  14. Boozy Augusten Burroughs spins tales of Christmas cheerRead the original story

    Sunday Nov 22 | The Herald

    ... Some take readers to familiar terrain - Burroughs' childhood, so vividly captured in his debut memoir "Running with Scissors" - while others give us a glimpse of his adult life as a best-selling, middle-age writer living with his partner in western ...

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  15. QuoteRead the original story

    Sunday Nov 22 | Overheard in New York

    Quote this entry on your blog! If you want to quote or post " ...Why Do You Think I Moved to New York? " on your blog, just copy this code: ...Why Do You Think I Moved to New York? Trendy undergrad #1: You should read "Dry." it's by the guy who wrote "Running with Scissors." it's when he moves to New York and becomes an alcoholic.Trendy ...

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  16. 'Venting' delivers twists and turns with a dose of comedyRead the original story

    Thursday Nov 19 | The Daily Princetonian, 2008-05-16

    ... the basement - as a girl. And don't think the twists stop there. Reminiscent of Augusten Burroughs' "Running with Scissors," "Venting" presents a tangled web of dysfunction, perhaps best described inadvertently by Milo, the "daughter" living in the ...

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  17. Retro Review: PostalRead the original story w/Photo

    Thursday Nov 19 | Nag.blog

    ... this is where I'd usually put some narrative pretext, but Postal doesn't have one. Maybe the guys at Running With Scissors left that blank so players could superimpose their own miserable realities onto the game. Oh, but who needs a reason to go on ...

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  18. Author pouts in print about his unhappy holidays

    Wednesday Nov 18 | North Jersey Media Group

    It's not uncommon for people to say that their holidays don't live up to a Norman Rockwell painting, but Augusten Burroughs says his holidays have been "hideous." The best-selling author of books like "Running With Scissors" and "Dry" has compiled a book of essays about those dreadful experiences called "You Better Not Cry" . During a recent ...

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  19. Lecture: Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger'sRead the original story w/Photo

    Sunday Nov 15 | University of Massachusetts Amherst

    ... by alcoholism, mental illness, and abuse. Robison's brother, Augusten Burroughs, authored the book Running with Scissors , a New York Times best-seller that was made into a motion picture. Co-sponsored by Commonwealth College and the Residential ...

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    Related Topix: Amherst, MA, UMass Amherst, Autism, Events

  20. Author shares holiday storiesRead the original story w/Photo

    Saturday Nov 14 | Athens Banner-Herald

    ... dreadful holiday stories in his new book, "You Better Not Cry." The best-selling author of books like "Running with Scissors" and "Dry" has compiled a book of essays about those dreadful experiences called "You Better Not Cry" (St. Martin's Press, ...

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