“I had never spoken the words ‘I'm a witch’ out loud,” said Burroughs, when reached by phone at his home in rural Connecticut. It’s because he’s writing about the one topic that’s always been off the table: his life as a witch. And for the first time, Burroughs says, he feels “terror” at the thought of going on a book tour. Yet here he is again, with his ninth nonfiction book, Toil & Trouble: A Memoir. He’s mined his memories so thoroughly that a decade ago, when promoting his fifth memoir, he joked to The New York Times that he had written “more memoirs than anyone my age should be entitled to write.” He’s delved into his struggles with addiction, sexual abuse, and his dysfunctional family, in books including Running with Scissors, Dry, and A Wolf at the Table. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 starsįor Augusten Burroughs, one of the most acclaimed memoirists of his generation, no topic in his life has been off-limits.
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