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Article: David Carr's Crash: Drug Rehab Memoir Remakes the Genre.
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- July 29, 2008
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It's not immediately clear when you get to the end of NYT columnist David Carr's new book, The Night of the Gun, whether you've just seen the memoir redeemed or irrevocably dismantled. A work of traditional reportage motivated by the fashionable and unnerving notion that it's impossible to really know anything for sure, Mr. Carr's book--which arrives in bookstores next week--turns the traditional memoir on its head, assuming as it does that its author knows nothing about his own life and must research it as though it were someone else's. The book practically interrogates itself, questioning its own right to exist even as Mr. Carr vigilantly gathers string on the dark ...
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