Book Menu for Running with Scissors: A Memoir
by Augusten Burroughs
ISBN of the edition I read: 0312938853 (mass market paperback)
Food mentioned in Running with Scissors:
Peanuts, 2
Baked stuffed clams, 3
Bologna sandwiches with horseradish, 24
Hot dog, 25, 299
Coke, 28-29, 302
Tuna salad on white, 31
Sanka, 36
Pringles, 46
Tuna sandwich, 82
Turkey sandwich, 82
Rocky Road brownies, 81
Gruyere broccoli, 84
Orange juice, 152
Candy canes, 163
Snickers Bars, 183
Cheetos, 193
Chips Ahoy cookies, 207
Mint chocolate chip ice cream, 237
Cucumber sandwiches, 241
Nestle Crunch Bar,
Grilled cheese and tomato, 256
Boston cream pie, 257
Pecan pie, 259
Pecans, 259, 289
Diet Coke, 272
Popcorn, 284
Cheese Nips, 314
French Onion Soup, 315
Patty melts, 317
Chicken salad, 316
Potato skins, 316
Whiskey sours, 316
Books and Authors mentioned in Running with Scissors:
Jules Renard, epigraph
John Updike, 21
Emily Dickinson, 85
Stephen King, 88
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, 225
Ernest Hemingway, 304
Television mentioned in Running with Scissors:
Donnie and Marie Show, 5, 8
One Day at a Time, 31
All in the Family, 43
Donahue, 73
Three's Company, 113
Charlie's Angels, 255
The Love Boat, 287
The Jeffersons, 291
The Mary Tyler Moore Show, 317
Music mentioned in Running with Scissors:
Tony Orlando, 8, 11
Barry Manilow, 11, 57
Odetta, 11
Edith Piaf, 18
Blondie, 71
"Heart of Glass", 188
Supertramp, 82
Donna Summer, 98
KISS, 109
Pat Benatar, 173, 254
Pat Boone, 178
Peaches 'N Herb, 184
Captain and Tenille, 184
Stevie Nicks, 184
"Somewhere" (West Side Story), 189
"You Light up My Life", 189
West Side Story, 214
"You're Breaking my Heart 'Cause You're Leaving" / Frankie Lane, 241
Karla Bonoff, 242
Leonard Cohen, 242
"Paper Roses" / Marie Osmond, 250
"We Need a Little Christmas" / Mame, 289
Magazines mentioned in Running with Scissors:
The New Yorker, 10, 12-13
Yankee, 98
Atlantic Monthly, 241
Movies mentioned in Running with Scissors:
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 31
Mommie Dearest, 126
Endless Love, 138, 183
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 232
Pretty Baby (with Brook Shields), 265
On Golden Pond, 285
Theater mentioned in Running with Scissors:
Man of La Mancha, 96
West Side Story, 214
Title phrase appears on pages 304-5
Natalie leaned in and put her elbows on the table. "Don't you ever just feel like we're chasing something? Something bigger. I don't know, it's like something that only you and I can see. Like we're running, running, running?"
"Yeah," I said. "We're running alright. Running with scissors."
