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Books: Carr Tell-All Published in August
NYT media columnist David Carr's memoir about doing drugs, The Night of the Gun, is due in bookstores this August. Carr is not only a terrific writer/reporter but Oscar season blogger as well (aka The Carpetbagger). Here's one chapter from the NYT Magazine. This is strong stuff:
I remember driving to a dark spot between the streetlights at the rounded-off corner of West 32nd and Garfield. Right here, I thought. This would be fine.The Nova, a junker with a bad paint job my brother bought me out of pity, shuddered to a stop, and I saw two sleeping children in the rearview, the fringe of their hoods emerging in outline against the backseat as my eyes adjusted to the light. Teeny, tiny, itty-bitty, the girls were swallowed by the snowsuits. We should not have been there. But I was fresh out. I had nothing. I called Kenny.
Anna was out, and I could not bear to leave them home, but I was equally unable to stay put. So here we were, one big, happy family, parked outside the dope house. Then came the junkie math. If I went inside the house, I could get what I needed in 5 minutes, 10 minutes tops. The twins would sleep, dreaming their little baby dreams where their dad is a nice man, where the car rides end at a playground.
Carr's book inspires Jeffrey Wells to recall some of his own darker moments before he pulled himself out of some bad habits.
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