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September 18, 2008
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The Night of the Gun by David Carr (Simon A Schuster) $26.

There's no way to put it nicely. The Night of the Gun is the memoir of a recovering cokehead/alcoholic who through sheer, almost ugly, force of will, gets sole custody of his twin

daughters and becomes a reporter for the New York Times. Having first learned of David Carr through his video blogging for the Times over several Oscar campaigns-he has rotten taste but managed to correctly pick Crash over Bmkeback Mountain-I always assumed he was a skinny homosexual. Apparently, he's more of a serial girlfriend-beater. The only reason he isn't 300 pounds is a bout with Hodgkin's lymphoma.

The Night of the Gun should have been unbearable. ...

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