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Christmas has not been kind to Augusten Burroughs. But in his inimitable style, the New York Times best-selling author of Running with Scissors, Dry and A Wolf at the Table turns his smorgasbord of cringe-worthy seasonal memories - a one-night stand with an aging Frenchman in a Santa suit, a holiday spent among the homeless - into an improbably merry, touching read. You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas hit shelves Oct. 27. TIME caught up with Burroughs to chat about why he writes, what he reads and memoirists who lie. (See TIME's top 100 books...
...taught him about liberty and idealism. For me, he had a more prosaic story, about the time he and his in-laws were chased by hoodlums near his apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He has an appreciation not just for America but also for American-style politics, possessing all the tools of a seasoned American pol: consultants, pollsters and genuine enthusiasm for working a crowd...
...with several of her colleagues, stood her ground against the many residents who evidently did not like that he is white and from the suburbs. The experienced and savvy Young possesses both the strong managerial skills of his predecessor, Thomas D. Fowler-Finn, and the grace and consensus-building style of Fowler-Finn’s predecessor, Bobbie D’Alessandro. As Young makes controversial staffing and curricular decisions, as he surely will, it will be important that committee members are allies in promoting reform and not agents of obstruction...
...We’re playing a little bit more of a pro style on the penalty kill,” Stone said. “And with a small squad, I think it saves us a little...
...station in Chicago's Loop. As a chief executive, Blagojevich, 52, earned a checkered reputation, but over the airwaves his gifts are self-evident. Clad in a burgundy polo shirt, his signature hair standing at attention, he is focused, energized and relentlessly on message, fusing ward-style populism with a preacher's rhythmic cadences as he blasts the cabal of politicians responsible for his ouster. Not since Holden Caulfield has the word phony gotten such a workout...