![]() ![]() “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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