Forget Julie and Julia: Daniel Duane spent eight years cooking his way through all of revolutionary chef Alice Waters’ cookbooks. Duane turned to Chef Waters’ Chez Panisse cookbooks when—as a new father, armed only with pasta and stir-fry—he was desperate for help.
Augusten Burroughs: Self-Help from the Man Who Ran With Scissors
Tuesday, May 22, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm
Great Hall; enter on 8th Avenue. $5.
Ten years ago, Augusten Burroughs totally redefined the modern memoir with Running With Scissors; now he takes on the self-help genre. This Is How, not surprisingly, is not your usual self-help book; you’ll find no therapist-approved solutions or tips to cynically mollify pain or make yourself feel better. Instead, by demonstrating how only rigorous, sometimes-uncomfortable honesty truly can set a person free, Burroughs explains that some problems are, in fact, insurmountable—and that recognizing this can be the next best thing to overcoming them.