6/21/2023 0 Comments Dry a memoir by augusten burroughsFrom Minnesota, Burroughs returns to New York and participates in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. It is an earnest and cautionary tale of calamity, brimming with Sedaris-like darkly comic quips: "Making alcoholic friends is as easy as making sea monkeys." Burroughs's slight Southern accent and gentle yet glib delivery should summon empathy on the listener's part that may have been lost with another reader. Burroughs's telling of the tale alternates among hilarious, pathetic, existential and hopeful. "The truly odd part is that I really don't know how they got there," admits Burroughs in this autobiographical tale of being a prodigy with an extremely successful career in advertising and a drive to get as wasted as possible as often as possible. This is what Burroughs ( Running with Scissors) encountered upon returning from Minnesota's Proud Institute (supposedly the Imagine coming home to find hundreds of empty scotch bottles and 1,452 empty beer bottles in your apartment.
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