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By Mark Flanagan, About.com Guide to Contemporary Literature since 2003

Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs

Monday October 6, 2003
A friend in Alcoholics Anonymous once explained alcoholism to me like this: "It's like dancing with a gorilla. You're not done until the gorilla's done." In "Dry," a shocking and hilarious follow-up to his childhood memoir, "Running with Scissors," Augusten Burroughs recounts recovery from alcoholism... more

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