Shortly after I moved to New York to work in publishing, a friend of mine beelined across the room at a party, grabbed me by the arm and shrieked, “I’m reading the most awesome book! There’s this kid in it, and he’s living with a crazy psychiatrist and his family, and they try to predict the future by looking at the shape of their poop !”

Such was my (admittedly incomplete) introduction to the writing of Augusten Burroughs.

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Welcome to Waxing Literary, where we’re too lazy… er, I mean, erudite and busy reading Proust, to think of a funnier bee-related title pun.

My name is Kat, and I’ll be here each week with book-centric news from around the city – everything from bookstore profiles to author events to the occasional review.

Can all of you read? Are you ready to enter the secret Hive-Lair of the Literati?

Good, then let’s get started!

Before we can spend all our waking hours talking about books, it is first necessary to procure some. But, as a quick tour around Barnes & Noble will undoubtedly reveal, there’s one problem: they’re effin’ expensive. So in order to keep your shelves stocked with important works of literature (or to avoid shelling out $7.95 for the latest paperback featuring a cat that solves mysteries ), I’m dedicating this week’s column to ways of Being Bookish On A Budget, special to NYC.

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