If you could sum up This Is How in three words, what would they be? Told with Burroughs's unique voice, black humor, and in-your-face advice, This is How is Running With Scissors - with recipes.

This Is How is his no-holds-barred book of advice on topics as varied as: From having no formal education past third grade and being raised by his mother’s psychiatrist in the seventies to enjoying one of the most successful advertising careers of the eighties to experiencing a spectacular downfall and rehab stint in the nineties to having a number one bestselling writing career in the new millennium, Burroughs has faced humiliation, transformation and everything in between. To say that Augusten Burroughs has lived an unusual life is an understatement. He lives in Manhattan.From the #1 New York Times best-selling 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 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 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.

This Is How by Augusten Burroughs