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Article: A long night's journey into day; MEMOIR: In an often harrowing tale, New York Times columnist David Carr takes a hard look at his unsavory past.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 3, 2008
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Byline: ANDREA HOAG
Special to the Star Tribune
"When Anna's water broke in her living room on Oliver Avenue, I had just handed her a crack pipe." It's hard to admire a writer capable of penning these words. No matter. Any reader who loves a story of hard-won redemption will surely come to admire David Carr's stunningly smart new chronicle of drug use and despair set in Minneapolis in the 1980s. Trading crack pipe for pen, the Hopkins native is now a New York Times columnist, preceded by a long journalistic career in the Twin Cities and a stint at a Washington, D.C., alternative weekly.
Considering how bad this story gets -- oh, and it gets bad -- no small amount ...
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......recognize the athletic accomplishments of Central Valley football quarterback, David Carr by proclaiming Saturday, September 1, 2007 as David Carr Day. David Carr is a product of the Central Valley, growing up in Bakersfield and playing football...
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