In 2002, Burroughs became a household name with the publication of Running With Scissors, his tragi-comic account of a gothically cruel childhood that sustained an epic run on the New York Times best-seller list. Lust & Wonder is the author’s 10th book, but it’s the last chapter in a trilogy of memoirs that have defined his career, and that tell the story of his life so far. The feeling it gave me was larger than the feeling of drunk.” “This should be a criminal activity, punishable by imprisonment or worse. Writing “carried me much further away from myself than drinking had ever managed to do,” he explains in his latest memoir, the just-released Lust & Wonder. Words, he found, were their own form of addiction, a societally acceptable means of escape. Writing also helped Burroughs, an alcoholic, to get and stay sober after a post-rehab relapse. “Writing gave me a place to park my mind, to try to untie the knots of my life.” “I’ve been in the habit since I was 8 or 9, every day to process my feelings,” he says by phone. For Augusten Burroughs writing is a daily exercise.
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