Still no work at Son of the World's Best Temp Job

[serene]

I am reading Running With Scissors, the memoir by Augusten Burroughs.
People who say it's similar to David Sedaris's work are, I think, looking
at it in a very superficial way. Not every writer who is wry and gay and
obsessive-compulsive is doing the kind of work Sedaris is doing. I love
Sedaris. I love this book, too. It's an entirely different creature from
Sedaris's work: darker, more literary, more introspective, more personal,
less concerned with comedic value, more concerned with allowing the
grotesque to be funny on its own, and a bit less everyman, which is not
something I had thought about in relationship to Sedaris's work before
today.