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Article: The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own.(Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- August 8, 2008
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Byline: Mike Pearson, Rocky Mountain News
* Nonfiction. By David Carr. Simon & Schuster, $26. Grade: B
Book in a nutshell: There is no shortage of addiction memoirs on the market - see James Frey or Augusten Burroughs - but New York Times reporter Carr has a slightly different slant on the surrender-my-life-to-drugs genre. After his sixth trip to rehab, Carr decided to write about his two-plus decades of addiction from a journalistic perspective. That meant grabbing a notebook, video camera and tape recorder, and revisiting the people with whom he experienced the most darkness in his life, and getting them to share their recollections.
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