"One of the most compelling and screamingly funny voices of the new century belongs to Augusten Burroughs. . . . Burroughs is blessed with an offbeat perspective and a viciously uncensored wit, a delight to read."--USA Today
"Augusten Burroughs shows why he is the memoirist-of-the-moment with his harrowing and laugh-out-loud new essay collection, Magical Thinking."--Vanity Fair
"Ruthlessly funny . . . deliciously perverse . . . he extracts something funny from every shred of his own warped experience. Magical Thinking indeed."--People(four stars)
"Sports nuts have Dave Barry, Midwesterners have Garrison Keillor, and the rest of us—gay guys, misfits, those with horrific childhoods—have Burroughs.…He hooks you into a story better than anybody."--Entertainment Weekly(A-)
"Every so often a 'writer's writer' pops up and deliciously ambushes readers--writers like David Sedaris, Larry Brown, and Frank McCourt. . . . Augusten Burroughs deserves membership to this inner circle. . . . Magical Thinking is finely-honed and addicting . . . Miraculous."--Rocky Mountain News (Denver)
"Deeply satisfying, full of both gleeful one-liners and shocking instances of profound wisdom . . . There are few writers as outrageously magical or as surprisingly thoughtful as Augusten Burroughs."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"A literary favorite—right up there with humorists David Sedaris and Laurie Notaro . . . Fascinating."--Boston Herald
"Superlatively disturbed . . . A brand-new collection of deliciously lurid true tales…offer[s] an irresistible display of sanity hanging by a thread."--Booklist(starred review)
"Still wild, sad, funny, tender, and frightening . . . It’s all about the journey. Do go along. Just be sure to pack some tissues for the laughing and the crying."--The Seattle Times
