#39

Judging by two memoirs last year by David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs, the greatest challenge facing the New York memoir writer these days is getting used to a life that is relatively normal. Both authors have made careers of remembering the various ways that normalcy seemed exotic to them back when they were living hellish, if hilarious, lives in families that ranged from eccentric to criminally negligent. But now that their lives are closer to what they longed for, is it possible that normal is becoming the new hip?

My big fat hip wedding