Magical Thinking: True Stories

Praise for Augusten Burroughs

"A wrenching, edifying journey...with the added benefit of being really entertaining."

- The New York Times Book Review on Dry

"Beneath the quick-flowing, funny-sad surface of Burroughs's prose lurks considerable complexity."

- Time on Dry

"A great read."

- Chicago Sun-Times on Dry

"Dry is more than a heartbreaking tale; it's a heroic one."

- People on Dry

"Laughter on the road to sobriety...for aficionados of outrageous black comedy."

- The New York Times on Dry

"Bawdy, outrageous...insanely funny (quite literally)...a William Burroughs situation comedy."

- The New York Times on Running with Scissors

"Running with Scissors, as a memoir in the current conventional sense, makes a good run at blowing every other contender out of the water."

- The Washington Post on Running with Scissors

"Outrageously amusing...wait until you get a load of this guy's material.... He can consider this a fan letter. Grade A."

- Entertainment Weekly on Running with Scissors

"As funny as it is twisted."

- GQ on Running with Scissors