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BURBANK, Calif. - (Business Wire) As previously reported, singer/songwriter Tegan Quin from acclaimed Canadian band Tegan and Sara and author Augusten Burroughs (Running With Scissors; A Wolf at the Table) will co-headline SPIN. ...
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Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara and author Augusten Burroughs ( Running With Scissors , A Wolf at the Table ) will co-headline SPIN.com's Liner Notes , an event at Housing Works Bookstore Café on Thursday, Sept. 4 to celebrate the cross-pollination of music and literature and raise funds for Housing Works, a New York-based non-profit organization whose proceeds benefit its parent organization, Housing Works, Inc., the nation's largest minority-controlled AIDS service provider. The event, presented by Spin magazine and the SPIN.com Book Club, will also feature a performance by musician Colin Frangicetto (Circa Survive) and readings by musicians Elizabeth Seward (Spelling & Grammar) and Stephen Christian (Anberlin), who recently published his first novel, The Orphaned Anythings . The performances will be juxtaposed to highlight the effects the written word and music have over each other, and will be particularly special, as Tegan recently penned a song for the audio edition of Augusten’s latest book, A Wolf at the Table . Recent Book Club entries on SPIN.com : >> Milan Kundera's 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' >> Sacks' 'An Anthropologist on Mars' >> 'Einstein's Dreams,' Picked by Dredg's Drew Roulette "Like a scene out of a movie, earlier this year Augusten Burroughs asked if Sara or I might contribute a song to the audio version of his latest masterpiece (he didn't use that word, I did)," Tegan says. "I of course was honored and ... Source: www.augusten.com --- 31 days ago
Thursday, September 04, 2008 at 8:00 PM. SPIN Magazine and Housing Works host an evening of music and literature with a reading by author Augusten Burroughs (Running With Scissors; A Wolf at the Table) and performance by musician Tegan Quin (Tegan and Sara) to highlight the mutual effects of music and literature and celebrate the [...] ... Source: www.i-walt.com --- 54 days ago
Amazon has posted an interview with Augusten Burroughs on their blog, Omnivoracious. ... Source: www.thebookpirate.com --- 45 days ago
Blurb for the back cover: "a satirical look at QVC type networks and consumerism in America" Sellevision is the only attempt at fiction that Augusten Burroughs , of Running With Scissors and Dry fame, has sadly made. I say this because I really enjoyed this book. Having read all of his memoir books (with the exception of [...] ... Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 3 days ago
• The Melbourne Writers Festival has kicked off, and a few blog reports have popped up.(via) Hits so far: Augusten Burroughs, Nam Le and, despite only appearing via satellite from Edinburgh, Salman Rushdie. • Remember when Random House shelved "The... ... Source: contemporarylit.about.com --- 55 days ago
In "Dry," a follow-up to his shocking and hilarious childhood memoir, "Running with Scissors," Augusten Burroughs recounts his introduction into recovery from alcoholism. ... Source: abc.net.au --- 3 days ago
Augusten Burroughs: A Wolf at the Table Augusten Burroughs made the terrible events of his adolesence funny in Running with Scissors. Now Burroughs has written another memoir, one that goes further back into his childhood to investigate his relationship with his father. It's a darker work called A Wolf at the Table. ... Source: www.pitchforkmedia.com --- 21 days ago
It's been a couple months since Tegan and Sara wrapped t heir last North American tour , and dang if they're not already getting revved up to do it again. The Sisters Quin will attend to few festival appearances before picking things back off proper-like September 30 in Atlanta. They'll close things out in mid-October with a four-night stand at Los Angeles' Henry Fonda Theater, at which point we may very well be telling you about their plans to hit the road this winter. Before all that, the duo will do an acoustic set at the Under the Volcano festival in Vancouver this weekend. Then, on September 4, Tegan will break away from her sister for one night in NYC. She'll play a SPIN.com Housing Works benefit show alongside members of Circa Survive and Anberlin and authors Elizabeth Seward and Augusten Burroughs. As previously reported , Tegan contributed a song to the soundtrack to Burroughs' latest book, A Wolf at the Table . read more ... Source: www.nzherald.co.nz --- 29 days ago
The most incredible thing about Augusten Burroughs' bare-all memoirs is that after you have read the disturbing thoughts and anecdotes of the author, you feel as if you know him - that somehow, by being a fly on the wall as he loses... ... Source: www.redflagdeals.com --- 44 days ago
Chapters.Indigo.ca has a Bargain Clearance Section with books from $2 to $5 . Here are some titles you might want to snap up: Magical Thinking: True Stories by Augusten Burroughs is $2 -- and it's a hardcover! Twelve Sharp: A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich is $2. It's another hardcover, and its list price is $37 -- a nice savings Lore of Averages: "Facts, Figures, and Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary" by Karen Farrington is also $2 Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France by Lucy Moore is $5 There's a good selection of cookbooks as well, including Tasty: Get Good Food on the Table Every Day for $5, Moosewood Restaurant Cooks For A Crowd for $5, and Cook This for $2. They've also got a nice selection of blank journals meant for writing -- each for $2. They come in several designs: Bathing Beauties, Emily The Strange, Spiderman and more. ... Source: www.spin.com --- 30 days ago
As we recently reported , Tegan and Sara's Tegan Quin and author Augusten Burroughs will co-headline the SPIN.com Book Club's Liner Notes event at New York City's Housing Works Bookstore Café on Sept. 4. The event will raise funds for Housing Works, Inc., the nation's largest minority-controlled AIDS-service provider, and will also promote the cross-pollinating of music and literature through a reading by Anberlin's Stephen Christian and a performance by Circa Survive's Colin Frangicetto. More on SPIN.com: >> Tegan Quin and Augusten Burroughs Headline Liner Notes >> Anberlin's Christian Dishes 'A Brave New World' >> Bonnaroo Reviewed: Tegan and Sara >> Register to Vote at Headcount.org! SPIN.com's Peter Gaston went to the Warped Tour in Englishtown, NJ yesterday, July 28, to speak to a number of artists (come back tomorrow for a shoutout from Gym Class Heroes' Travis McCoy about HeadCount , the non-partisan voter registration organization). And among the interviewees was Christian; watch video here of the two chatting about Book Club and Liner Notes, as well as what bands are worth checking out at Warped. ...
Source: www.newhavenadvocate.com --- 56 days ago
Thursday 3 Augusten in July Augusten Burroughs is the most successful and unrestrained example of a child Running With Scissors . His memoir of that title, set in western Massachusetts where he was sent to stay with his mother's psychiatrist, has had its veracity challenged but withstood... ... Source: criticalmass.blogs.citypaper.net --- 32 days ago
Ecco, 320 pp., $24.95, July 29Ever since David Sedaris proved that humorous, autobiographical short stories can sell, a crop of new writers has sprung out of nowhere trying to emulate him. Chelsea Handler, Augusten Burroughs, Cynthia Kaplan, and now The Waiter. And like many Sedaris hopefuls, his attempts fall short.After maintaining the blog WaiterRant.net for [...] ... Source: www.topix.com --- 46 days ago
I am always on the lookout for quirky coming-of-age memoirs in the tradition of Augusten Burroughs or David Sedaris, so I could not resist Matt Rothschild's Dumbfounded [Crown, Aug.]. Rothschild grew up in a ... ... Source: www.booksandco.com --- 2 days ago
MONDAY, 7-8 PM @ The Greene JOHN ELDER ROBISON will discuss the softcover edition of his memoir, Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Aspergers . For fans of Oliver Sacks, parents of children on the autism spectrum, and anyone interested in the workings of the human mind, this moving, slyly funny story of growing up with Aspergers syndrome (a form of autism), at the time when the diagnosis didnt exist, is remarkable. Readers will be fascinated with Robisons journey from his world into ours. His brother, Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors , says this about the book, As sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one could find. THREE RIVERS PRESS ... Source: www.challies.com --- 10 days ago
Monday August 18, 2008 Apres Lewis David Skeel, in an editorial at WSJ, wonders why, even after 55 years, there is still no successor to C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity . On Discarded Things An interesting little article from a med student whose blog I read. "After my first patient died, I remember getting this sick feeling in the pit of my stomach when I saw the janitor role down the corridor. I looked across the hall at a nurse who simultaneously shuddered and looked away. We could not watch as his living things were bagged and tossed away--as his room was raped." Snuggling a Mannequin "Recently I came across one of the saddest passages I've ever read. Writer Augusten Burroughs writes in his new book, The Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father , about growing up with his distant, neglectful father. One part, in particular, was so raw as to make me almost cringe as I read it." Religion Out of Medicine This is a chilling possibility in my province of Ontario. "Ontario physicians could be stripped of their right to exercise religious or moral conscience if a new set of guidelines is accepted by their regulating body next month, critics say." Advertisement : ... Source: www.theinkwellonline.com --- 4 days ago
After reaching number one on the New York Times Best Seller list with "Running with Scissors," Augusten Burroughs turns an analytical eye to his relationship with his loveless father in "A Wolf at the Table." The story unfolds beginning with Burroughs' earliest memories as an infant and traces his perceptions as he comes of age in a house virtually isolated from the world. ... Find more results for Augusten Burroughs on RSSMicro.com |
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When fans of the Spin Book Club meets at Housing Works next Thursday night (Sept. 4) to talk with Augusten Burroughs about his new memoir, A Wolf at the Table , there'll be an added bonus: Tegan Quin (of Tegan & Sara fame) will be performing a new song she wrote, inspired by Burroughs and at his request, for the first time ever in public. "I was a huge fan of Augusten's and was ecstatic when the request came in from my management," Quin emailed about the song. "It was very hard for me to write the song mainly because it was the first time I had ever tried to write a song for anyone before. I usually write about myself and was a little stuck at the start. This of course made it an even more exciting and fulfilling experience for me." Quin became a member of Spin 's book club, where a cluster of musicians gather monthly to talk about books, after being interviewed for the magazine by club organizer Emily Zemler . She says she and her bandmate, twin sister Sara, have different tastes in literature but do have a few authors they both love and frequently swap books while on the road. Right now, she's reading The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté : "I like to read fiction the best," she admitted, "but try to change it up and read nonfiction to challenge myself every few books." (photos: Getty Images) New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media ...
BASTILLE DAY AT THE MARKET : Seattle's French restaurants are in Francophile overdrive tonight in celebration of French independence. Le Pichet (1933 First Ave.) starts its annual party at 6 p.m. and features Gypsy jazz until 11 p.m., when the d.j. takes over. Maximilien (81A Pike St.) has a special three-course dinner tonight for $35 and an accordion player. And Cafe Campagne (86 Pine St.) tops them all: a street fair is happening in Post Alley starting at 3 p.m. including wine and hors d'oeuvres. For those seeking more sustenance, they're offering an extravagant five-course dinner for around $80 per person. Times and links available above; for dinners, reservations are in order. BROKEN HOME : Literary sister to Augusten Burroughs, Susanna Sonnenberg's upbringing is a twisted mix of perversion and abuse. Sonnenberg's mother was a piece of work: she gave her daughter Penthouse at age 10, blow when she was 12, and at 14 seduced her boyfriend. By high school she was banging her English teacher and, in her new "memoir" Her Last Death , there's a chapter provocatively titles "Sex With Everyone." Literary snoops smelling James Frey tactics here are spurred on by her disclosure that some of the book is fictionalized, but for those who take joy in consuming the bounty of human misery, that shouldn't matter much. 7:30 p.m. // Elliott Bay Books , 101 S. Main // free! PSYCHO KILLER : Turns out Charlie Chaplin's "Little Tramp" was really a ...