http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/12/05/bissinger-vs-burroughs/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:54:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/12/05/bissinger-vs-burroughs/comment-page-1/#comment-66847 Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist Online » Blog Archive » Powerful Vindication, Sort Of Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:32:16 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/12/05/bissinger-vs-burroughs/#comment-66847 [...] The Turcotte family has settled their lawsuit against Augusten Burroughs and St. Martin’s, reports the Boston Globe (”Family settles with ‘Running with Scissors’ author, publisher,” by Rodrique Ngowi): Burroughs and his publisher, St. Martin’s Press, agree to call the work a “book” instead of “memoirs,” in the author’s note and to change the acknowledgments page in future editions to say that the Turcotte family’s memories of events he describes “are different than my own,” and expressing regret for “any unintentional harm” to them, according to Howard Cooper, an attorney for the family. He said financial terms of the settlement are confidential. [...]

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