This is how : proven aid in overcoming shyness, molestation, fatness, spinsterhood, grief, disease, lushery, decrepitude & more--for young and old alike

Cover image for This is how : proven aid in overcoming shyness, molestation, fatness, spinsterhood, grief, disease, lushery, decrepitude & more--for young and old alike

Title:

This is how : proven aid in overcoming shyness, molestation, fatness, spinsterhood, grief, disease, lushery, decrepitude & more--for young and old alike

Author:

Burroughs, Augusten, author.

Summary:

The author of Running with Scissors turns his unique voice and black humor to in-your-face-advice. With experience culled from his bizarre upbringing, successful advertising career, and stints in rehab, he holds forth on topics such as how to feel like crap, how to ride an elevator, how to find love, how to end your life, how to finish your drink, and more.

General Note:

Unabridged.

Physical Description:

5 sound discs (6 hrs) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Genre:

Audiobooks.

Local Note:

Audio Editions

Personal Subject:

Burroughs, Augusten.

Subject Term:

Conduct of life.

Publisher:

Macmillan,

Publication Date:

2012

ISBN:

9781427221636

Publication Information:

New York, NY : Macmillan, 2012.

Call Number:

CDB 814 BURROUG

Holds: Copies:

Available:*

Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
33607002673146	Adult Nonfiction Books on CDs	814 BURROUG	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable

Bound With These Titles

On Order

Summary

From the author of Running with Scissors comes a groundbreaking book that explores how to survive the 'un-survivable' and will challenge your notion of self-help books. Learn how to feel like crap; ride an elevator; be thin; be fat; find love; feel sorry for yourself; get the job; end your life; remain unhealed; finish your drink; and regret as little as possible.

Summary

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes a groundbreaking book that explores how to survive the "un-survivable" and will challenge your notion of self-help books 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 aupposed to survive this? This is How.

Author Notes

Augusten X. Burroughs was born with the name of Christopher Richter Robison in Pittsburgh, PA in 1965. At the age of 18, he chose the name Augusten X. Burroughs and legalized it in a Boston courtroom. He was raised in Western Massachusetts, after his mother had abandoned him to live with her psychiatrist. Burroughs dropped out of school at 13, his mother and her shrink helping him fake a suicide attempt, got his GED at 17 and then flunked out of community college. Burroughs survived a harrowing childhood, but used it and the strength he gained from surviving to springboard his literary career.

He has been a dog trainer, candy store clerk, waiter, sail cutter, store detective and, from the age of 19, an advertising copywriter. Burroughs lived in San Francisco for five years, then moved to New York in the early 1990s.

Burroughs writes memoirs (including the bestseller Running with Scissors which was made into a movie in 2006), as well as a sex column in DETAILS magazine, the occasional commentary for NPR, articles for New York Magazine, and essays for salon.com, Borders and Booksense. All of Augusten's subsequent books -Dry, Magical Thinking, Possible Side Effects, A Wolf at the Table, You Better Not Cry, This is How and Lust and Wonder- were instant New York Times bestsellers.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

In this hilarious and searingly straightforward memoir, Burroughs (Running with Scissors) turns the self-help genre upside down with his advice on matters ranging broadly from "how to be fat" and "how to lose someone you love" to "how to hold onto your dream or maybe not" and "how to finish your drink." On "how to find love," for example, he counsels, "be the person you are, not the person you think you should be. if you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward. be exactly the person you would be if you were alone or with somebody it was safe to fart around." On "Why Having It All Is Not," Burroughs commends the virtues of limits and the ways that such limits force improvisation; he doesn't believe "you can feel deep satisfaction in your life unless your life contains restless areas, holes, and imperfections." In "How to End Your Life," Burroughs, recalling his own teenage experience, distinguishes between suicide and ending life. After his brush with suicide, he realizes that he really didn't want to kill himself; what he really wanted was to end his life, which he accomplishes simply by changing his name and walking out the door and starting a new life. As always, Burroughs is smart and energetically forthright about living and loving. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Library Journal Review

Burroughs (Running with Scissors) playfully shares his hard-won insights in a book that is the antidote to the "just be positive" approach to life. Not a memoir, it reads more like a conversation with a close friend about truthfulness and authenticity, figuring things out and being hopeful, starting from where one is and learning to listen to oneself. Each short chapter explores a different topic: shame, despair, loss, body issues, hardship. Grounded in the understanding that life is a messy business, the book overflows with moments both wonderful and difficult. It is hard to know what to do with anger, pain, and obsession, Burroughs acknowledges, but he offers a kind of remedy: learn to live with it, to transform it, to move forward. This is about how to create a life from the circumstances of the present moment. The book has a soft ending, but readers won't mind because it's been a great ride. VERDICT There will be lots of attention and interest in this book: definitely order. Recommended for readers of popular culture, self-help, and psychology. [See Prepub Alert, 11/14/11.]-Nancy Almand, Fresno City Coll. Lib., CA (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Excerpts

NO EXCERPT PRE-PUB Excerpted from This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude and More. for Young and Old Alike by Augusten Burroughs All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.