This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More for the Young and Old Alike (did you get all that?) is equal parts self-help and anti-self-help, with a dash of memoir. When a well-meaning stranger in an elevator suggests he might smile, or as he sees it, "sprinkle baby powder on top of a turd," Burroughs declares affirmations of positivity as "bogus, side-of-the-cereal-box psychology." Unlike his book, I assume. Running with Scissors – doesn't even like self-help.
In fact, the memoirist – best known for his account of ultimate familial dysfunction in By his own admission, Augusten Burroughs is not a self-help writer.
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