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The Book Show #1449 - Augusten Burroughs

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published April 26, 2016 at 3:19 PM EDT
Book Cover - Lust & Wonder

  Augusten Burroughs is the author of such best-selling autobiographical works as Running with Scissors, Dry, and Magical Thinking.

His latest is called Lust & Wonder in which he chronicles the development and demise of the different relationships he's had while living in New York, he examines what it means to be in love, what it means to be in lust, and what it means to be figuring it out.
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