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Books & Poetry
An Evening with Augusten Burroughs
The Brooks Fund
April 8, 2009
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Add Review/CommentThe Brooks Fund proudly welcomes New York Times best-selling author Augusten Burroughs to Nashville for a reading, discussion, and booksigning featuring his latest best-seller A Wolf at the Table. This event marks Burroughs first ever trip to Nashville and event will be held at Ingram Hall at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music. Watch for more information to come on this exciting event. Event sponsors include Davis-Kidd Booksellers, Lightning 100, Nashville Scene, NowPlayingNashville.com, and Vanderbilt University.
Augusten Burroughs was born in 1965. He has no formal education beyond elementary school. A very successful advertising copywriter for over seventeen years, Burroughs was also an alcoholic who nearly drank himself to death in 1999. But spurned by a compulsion he did not understand, Burroughs began to write a novel. Never outlining or consciously structuring the book, Burroughs wrote, "as fast as I could type, to keep up." Seven days later, Augusten Burroughs had written his first book. He had also stopped drinking. The book was published one year layer. Burroughs remains sober to this day. And Sellevision stands as Burroughs's only published novel. It is currently in development as a feature film.
Augusten's second book was a memoir. It was also a publishing phenomenon that helped to ignite a kind of memoir fever in America and abroad. Running with Scissors was released in 2001 to virtually unanimous critical acclaim. The memoir would ultimately remain on the New York Times bestseller list for over four consecutive years, eight months of which were spent in the #1 position. The film, starring Annette Benning, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jill Clayburgh and Alec Baldwin was released in 2005.
He has since published four additional autobiographical volumes (Dry, Possible Side Effects, Magical Thinking and A Wolf at the Table), all of them bestsellers. Currently published in over thirty countries, Augusten's book readings have become massively popular events on numerous continents. He has also headlined for the most prestigious literary festivals in the world, most recently the 2008 Melbourne writer's Festival, where he and Germaine Greer delivered the keynote addresses on opening night. In addition, Burroughs speaks regularly at colleges and universities on topics ranging from alcoholism and sexual abuse to the art of authoring one's own life and humor as serious medicine.
Twice honored by Entertainment Weekly as one of 25 funniest people in America, Burroughs shocked fans and the media alike with the release of A Wolf at the Table in early 2008. The brutal, terrifying and decidedly unfunny book instantly generated a storm of publicity and controversy. Critics were deeply divided, and the book received some of the worst -and best- reviews of the author's career. The book tour for A Wolf at the Table, spanned some six months and four countries, as Augusten performed for the largest crowds of his career. A Wolf at the Table is Augusten's bestselling hardcover to date.
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Tickets: Free Admission
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April 8, 2009Times:
Wednesday 7:00pm -
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Vanderbilt University - Blair School of Music
2400 Blakemore Avenue Nashville, TN 37212
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