Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Summer 2011 Read

The summer 2011 Morris book club reading is Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs. Peter Bremer, Briggs Library, has provided a few resources below to enhance the reading experience. Discussion questions will be posted here and also sent via email on August 15.


Augusten Burroughs Biography [Author's website]
http://www.augusten.com/bio.html

Augusten Burroughs interview [NPR]
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1150281

Augusten Burrough's Mother Speaks Out [NPR]
http://www.npr.org/2006/10/08/6209286/augusten-burroughs-mother-speaks-out

One Family, Three Memoirs, Many Competing Truths [NPR]
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/25/136620260/one-family-three-memoirs-many-competing-truths

Burroughs Settles Lawsuit With 'Scissors' family [USA Today]
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-08-30-scissors-settlement_N.htm


Thank you!

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