Paperback magick: Augusten Burroughs reveals he's a lifelong witch

In his eighth memoir, the Running With Scissors author explains that he discovered his magickal powers aged eight

Running With Scissors author Augusten Burroughs has revealed an unusual detail about himself that he failed to mention in any of his previous seven memoirs: he is a witch.

Burroughs’s Toil & Trouble, out this month in the US, reveals how he first became aware of his “magickal” powers: aged eight, he was on the school bus and became convinced something terrible had happened to his grandmother. When he got home, his mother – whose decision to give Burroughs away to be raised by her psychiatrist is detailed in Running With Scissors – was on the phone, having learned that Augusten’s grandmother had been in a car accident and was in hospital.

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