“Running with Scissors” Suit Settled — Everybody Wins Augusten Burroughs and St. Martin’s have agreed to change a characterization of Running with Scissors in the front matter as “memoir” to call it just a “book” instead, as part of the settlement of a lawsuit filed by the Turcotte family. Burroughs will also alter the author’s note in the book to indicate: “I recognize that their memories of the events described in this book are different than my own. They are each fine, decent, and hard-working people. The book was not intended to hurt the family. Both my publisher and I […]