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Chapter 1 from The Night of the GunPrior to Dec 19, 2008
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The Night of the GunA renowned journalist takes an unflinching look at his drug addiction and recovery in this critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling memoir.Read More
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Business Insider, November 3, 2009
...HOLDING. QUICK: WARREN YOUR $34 BILLION DEAL IS THE LARGEST BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HAS EVER COMPLETED A DAY AFTER DAVID CARR OF THE "NEWYORK TIMES" SAYS BUSINESS NEWS ISN'T ALL THAT INTERESTING ANYMORE. BORED?WHAT ABOUT YOU?WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE...
New York Post, October 31, 2009
..."Too Big to Fail." Among those defending Sorkin are Business Editor Larry Ingrassia and veteran media reporter David Carr, who called him a "wonderful colleague." Abramson, reached by The Post yesterday said, "I'm not going to help you," and hung up. The...
Slate Magazine, October 28, 2009
...profile of Nikki Finke in The New Yorker. Finke's profane response on her blog, Deadline Hollywood Daily. David Carr's July profile of Finke in the New York Times. Hamilton Nolan's post on Gawker on the announcement to close Gourmet. Jack Shafer's piece...
Slate Magazine, October 28, 2009
...profile of Nikki Finke in The New Yorker. Finke's profane response on her blog, Deadline Hollywood Daily. David Carr's July profile of Finke in the New York Times. Hamilton Nolan's post on Gawker on the announcement to close Gourmet. Jack Shafer's piece...
The Nation, October 22, 2009
...the Obama White House and then accuses the administration of failing to 'respect press freedom.' The Times's David Carr concludes, 'So far, the only winner in this latest dispute seems to be Fox News. Ratings are up 20 percent this year, and the network...
Slate Magazine, October 21, 2009
...profile of Nikki Finke in The New Yorker. Finke's profane response on her blog, Deadline Hollywood Daily. David Carr's July profile of Finke in the New York Times. Hamilton Nolan's post on Gawker on the announcement to close Gourmet. Jack Shafer's piece...
Slate Magazine, October 21, 2009
...profile of Nikki Finke in The New Yorker. Finke's profane response on her blog, Deadline Hollywood Daily. David Carr's July profile of Finke in the New York Times. Hamilton Nolan's post on Gawker on the announcement to close Gourmet. Jack Shafer's piece...
Slate Magazine, October 14, 2009
...profile of Nikki Finke in The New Yorker. Finke's profane response on her blog, Deadline Hollywood Daily. David Carr's July profile of Finke in the New York Times. Hamilton Nolan's post on Gawker on the announcement to close Gourmet. Jack Shafer's piece...
Slate Magazine, October 14, 2009
...Tad Friend's of Nikki Finke in The New Yorker. Finke's on her blog, Deadline Hollywood Daily. David Carr's July of Finke in the .Hamilton Nolan's on Gawker on the announcement to close Gourmet. Jack Shafer's in Slate on Gourmet's end., home of Gourmet...
Chicago Tribune, August 3, 2009
...d like to get sold, and the successful subject of his story could help. As the media columnist David Carr recently explored, journalists, fearful of getting laid off, are scouting and scoring jobs with former sources all over the place. This play...
Chicago Tribune, August 2, 2009
...d like to get sold and the successful subject of his story could help. As the media columnist David Carr recently explored, journalists, fearful of getting laid off, are scouting and scoring jobs with former sources all over the place. This play explains...
KBIQFM, July 19, 2009
...the Atlanta based, multi-Platinum Christian Music rock band Third Day (made up of members Mac Powell, Tai Anderson, David Carr and Mark Lee) has racked up 26 No. 1 radio singles and sold more than seven million albums. The band has garnered 24 career GMA...
TheStreet.com, July 9, 2009
...industry, the news business to move into the digital age, wrote New York Times (NYT Quote) Media columnist David Carr about four years ago. This could be that moment. Murdoch told own Dan Freed last week that he has feared the news industry would be...
Kink.fm, July 7, 2009
...- Speaking Freely features New York Times bestselling author David Carr, In his book, ?The Night of the Gun? this award-winning reporter investigates the darkest story of his life. His own. Anyone who knows the powerful draw of booze and...
Huffington Post, June 17, 2009
...Robert Boswell's excellent new short story collection, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, to indie rock. Writer David Carr knows a thing or two about the DIY ethos. In his recent memoir, The Night of the Gun, Carr approached the subject of his own...
USA Today, June 3, 2009
...Erdrich "The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life, His Own by David Carr (Simon & Schuster, $15, non-fiction, reprint). Journalist reconstructs his years as an addict. "The Widows of Eastwickby John Updike (Ballantine,...
PaidContent.org, May 27, 2009
...Dont fix what isnt broken: A number of editors I spoke to commended the NYTimes Twitter army, including David Carr, (@Carr2n) and Jennifer 8. Lee (@jenny8lee. ) Shirley Brady, BW Onlines community editor, says Preston has a head start working with some...
PRWeb, May 4, 2009
...quickly gained over 537,000 followers for her tweets. Martha will be speaking to the New York Times' David Carr about how she makes use of this white-hot medium, which has become a celebrity favorite. The Future of Celebrity Media is chaired and...
Vail Daily, April 13, 2009
...disseminated to the general public and lawmakers to help them understand. 4. VD: I read a book by David Carr called 'Night of the Gun,' which is about addiction, and Tom Arnold popped up there and seems to be at the forefront of the recovery movement....
Vail Daily, April 13, 2009
...disseminated to the general public and lawmakers to help them understand. 4. VD: I read a book by David Carr called 'Night of the Gun,' which is about addiction, and Tom Arnold popped up there and seems to be at the forefront of the recovery movement....
Vail Daily, April 13, 2009
...disseminated to the general public and lawmakers to help them understand. 4. VD: I read a book by David Carr called 'Night of the Gun,' which is about addiction, and Tom Arnold popped up there and seems to be at the forefront of the recovery movement....
Techdirt, March 11, 2009
...because they're spending all their time rewriting the same column over and over again. The latest is David Carr of the NY Times who has written the same column that has been written about fifty times in the past 6 months by others, saying that papers...
Finding Dulcinea, March 10, 2009
...is being squeezed down, and in some cases out.? Newspapers must work together in order to survive, argues David Carr in a March 8 article in The New York Times. In Carr?s ?fantasy meeting? between newspaper publishers, all would agree to abolish...
EconomicPrincipals.com, March 3, 2009
...of what a newspapers does ? every bit as much as reporters? exertions and columnists? cogitations.) Times columnist David Carr famously lamented that what print needs is its own IPod, a device that would allow it to eke out a more modest living...
Media Bistro, February 16, 2009
...opportunities, but they are all risky. Do it while you have the luxury of failing. You recently criticized David Carr's idea for a news iTunes. How does the wisdom of Google apply to this particular situation? What Carr was going after was the idea that...
Seeking Alpha, February 8, 2009
...for a new kind of payment scheme grow louder and louder. Some, like New York Times (NYT) writer David Carr, have argued that newspapers should be able to concoct some form of iTunes for news that would allow them to pool their resources and charge users...
Slate, January 16, 2009
...My friend David Carr poses a worthy challenge in his New York Times column this morning: How can newspapers?now hemorrhaging advertisers and circulation?steal a little of that Apple magic and invent an iTunes...
New York Times, December 26, 2008
...This week: The Times?s David Carr on a new biography of Rupert Murdoch; Motoko Rich with Notes From the Field; Dana Canedy discusses her memoir, ?A Journal for Jordan?; and Jennifer Schuessler has best-seller news...
San Francisco Chronicle, December 20, 2008
...THE NIGHT OF THE GUN: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life - His Own By David Carr (Simon & Schuster; 400 pages; $26) Carr approaches his memoir of addiction like a reporter writing a profile of someone else and finds that his friends'...
Cheboygan Daily Tribune, December 8, 2008
...a little weary of the story but need to find out what happens, at the very least. Reading David Carr?s memoir, ?The Night of the Gun,? was nothing like those times. In fact, it is 4:10 p.m. on a Friday afternoon, and I?ve just finished...
MediaChannel.org, December 8, 2008
...Craigslist founder Craig Newmark said he believes that HuffPo is a ?successful reinvention of business models for journalism.? David Carr, the media columnist for the New York Times, observed that HuffPo allowed citizen journalist Mayhill Fowler to...
Hofstra Chronicle, November 24, 2008
...a special-effects-quality circa 1998 becoming a full-blown cultural phenomenon. The article titled 'Vampire of The Mall,' written by David Carr detailed how lead actor Robert Pattinson is currently (please hold laughter until end of the paragraph)...
mediabistro.com: FishBowlDC, September 29, 2009
...Ventures, Post-Newsweek Tech Media and Ryan Publishers in London. What working journalist do you most admire and why? David Carr of The New York Times, Hendrik Hertzberg of the New Yorker, Jack Shafer at Slate, and Andrew O'Hehir and Heather Havrilesky...
Arts Desk, September 24, 2009
...Or, considering that the only other books I’ve recently bought are The Night of the Gun by David Carr and This Is Your Country on Drugs by Ryan Grim (full disclosure: both are former CP colleagues), perhaps a budding Drew Barrymore...
InnerDorothy, August 27, 2009
...summer reading. Some has been your standard light summer reading, but I've recently read the autobiography of David Carr, entitled The Night of the Gun. I love autobiographies, especially the ones that are actually true depictions of a person's life. I...
Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk, August 10, 2009
...if all news content producers throw up a pay wall." Indeed, the New York Times media writer David Carr saw the Globe spokesman's announcement as less than convincing: "There was something vaguely oracular and final about his statement, as if saying it...
The Theater Loop, August 2, 2009
...d like to get sold and the successful subject of his story could help. As the media columnist David Carr recently explored, journalists, fearful of getting laid off, are scouting and scoring jobs with former sources all over the place. This play...
mediabistro.com: Media News, June 15, 2009
...6 percent last year compared with around 9 percent for bigger stations. Even Forbes Is Pinching Pennies ( NYT ) David Carr: Often thought of as a wealthy family that happens to own a magazine, the Forbes family is actually wealthy precisely because it...
mediabistro.com: Media News, June 10, 2009
...Covering Media (FishbowlNY) Vanity Fair and The New York Times both took home two of the six prizes. David Carr and David Barstow took home prizes for the Times , while VF 's Seth Mnookin and David Kamp each snagged an award. The New Yorker 's Ian Parker...
Twitter / carr2n, June 6, 2009
...ranks of Paperback Row in NYTimes Book Review. http://bit.ly/jdWoO about 6 hours ago from Twaitter carr2n david carr...
Twitter / carr2n, June 6, 2009
...on Paperback Row in NYTimes book review. http://bit.ly/jdWoO #notg about 6 hours ago from Twaitter carr2n david carr...
Twitter / carr2n, May 30, 2009
...of gravitas and fanboy glee.Pela, Clash, Amy Correia, National, Prince about 7 hours ago from web carr2n david carr...
Twitter / carr2n, May 27, 2009
...a pretty scary book. http://bit.ly/q7eqr Wired excerpts The Strain. about 2 hours ago from web carr2n david carr...
Twitter / carr2n, May 27, 2009
...For last time, I did not write "Big Spankable Asses." about 14 hours ago from web carr2n david carr...
Twitter / carr2n, May 27, 2009
...of Night of the Gun is shipping. http://bit.ly/z5hH2 yippie! about 17 hours ago from web carr2n david carr...
Twitter / carr2n, May 22, 2009
...beautiful, lyrical end. made my day. 3:24 PM May 22nd from web in reply to AndeeD carr2n david carr...
Twitter / carr2n, May 18, 2009
...to crack the code on mag conundrum w/Wired. http://bit.ly/D1AJL about 8 hours ago from web carr2n david carr...
Vladimir Prelovac, May 15, 2009
...David Carr published a review of my WordPress plugin development book on CIOZone.com. But this book convinced me WordPress can be extended to do just about anything I would want...
Twitter / carr2n, May 14, 2009
...by @ jestei and jessica hendra. hollywood, sex, and bad parenting about 4 hours ago from web carr2n david carr...
Gawker, May 5, 2009
...Michael Wolff is starting another beef! It's just what he does. Today's target : NYT media columnist David Carr , who Wolff says "I've never personally liked very much." We know why, Michael! Michael Wolff is sort of a full-time dick, but you do have to...
The Reformed Reader, April 29, 2009
...I just finished working through David Carr’s fairly new book, Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and Literature (Oxford, 2008). What an interesting and amazing study! I’m struck by...
mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY, April 20, 2009
...News is trickling out. This from David Carr 's Twitter : carr2n: Standing on floor four in nyt waiting for pulitzers. Keller just stepped up an said we won five. Big claps 2 minutes ago from TwitterBerry Also...
Stampede Blue, April 9, 2009
...as far as their coaches and organization allow them. It's no coincidence that busts like Tom Couch, David Carr, and Joey Harrington were drafted by bad organizations who employed incompetent coaches. Compare this with Peyton Manning, Donovan McNabb, and...
Mocking The Draft, April 2, 2009
...starter at USC. So, to simply throw him out there “to the wolves” as a rookie could David Carr him. He needs to grow and learn a system; develop his upper body; smooth out his delivery and mechanics; get comfortable with playing as a starting...
Mocking The Draft, March 26, 2009
...to start right away. Like Rodgers, he could learn under a skilled veteran. Unlike JaMarcus Russell, Alex Smith, David Carr, Joey Harrington, Tim Couch and Akili Smith , Stafford would not join a dysfunctional team in ruins. Nor would he be expected to...
Great New Books that Are a Must Read, March 3, 2009
...of Canada: New Book on the Tar Sands Environmental Disaster How One Reporter Overcame Drug and Alcohol Addictions: David Carr's Amazing Personal Journey Amazon.com Widgets Find Other Excellent Book Reviews and Author Interviews Loading... Privacy Policy...
Great New Books that Are a Must Read, March 2, 2009
...of Canada: New Book on the Tar Sands Environmental Disaster How One Reporter Overcame Drug and Alcohol Addictions: David Carr's Amazing Personal Journey Amazon.com Widgets Find Other Excellent Book Reviews and Author Interviews Loading... Privacy Policy...
Economic Principals, March 1, 2009
...of what a newspapers does – every bit as much as reporters’ exertions and columnists’ cogitations.) Time columnist David Carr famously lamented that what print needs is its own IPod, a device that would allow it to eke out a more modest living...
Great New Books that Are a Must Read, March 1, 2009
...of Canada: New Book on the Tar Sands Environmental Disaster How One Reporter Overcame Drug and Alcohol Addictions: David Carr's Amazing Personal Journey The Last Khan of Mongolia: New Book Bloody White Baron Interview With Author Len Deighton: Man of...
Great New Books that Are a Must Read, February 28, 2009
...of Canada: New Book on the Tar Sands Environmental Disaster How One Reporter Overcame Drug and Alcohol Addictions: David Carr's Amazing Personal Journey The Last Khan of Mongolia: New Book Bloody White Baron Interview With Author Len Deighton: Man of...
Great New Books that Are a Must Read, February 27, 2009
...Friday, February 27, 2009 How One Reporter Overcame Drug and Alcohol Addictions: David Carr's Amazing Personal Journey The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of his Life--His Own From my local paper the Daily Camera , Bette...
The Abstract Factory, February 27, 2009
...companies that own them, but also to the news itself," wrote the savvy New York Times columnist David Carr last month in a column endorsing the idea of paid content. This creates a necessity that ought to be the mother of invention. In addition, our two...
mathewingram.com/work, February 5, 2009
...out for a new kind of payment scheme grow louder and louder. Some, like New York Times writer David Carr, have argued that newspapers should be able to concoct some form of “iTunes for news” that would allow them to pool their resources and charge...
Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, February 5, 2009
...can’t work because of mental transaction costs and the like,” he believes that “things have changed.” Like David Carr before him, he points to the success of iTunes and the Kindle as “pay-per-drink” precedents. The key for attracting online...
The Millions, January 18, 2009
...get up for work in the morning: Our world may be a giant hologram Jack Shafer responds to David Carr's call to " invent an iTunes for News ." - Editor @ 8:23 PM ~ comments: 0 ~ Links to this post A Year in Reading 2008...
Largehearted Boy, January 15, 2009
...Carl Wilson The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of his Life--His Own by David Carr The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir by Sarah Manguso Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town by Kelly McMasters also at Largehearted Boy:...
Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, January 13, 2009
...Jack Shafer seems to be locked into the same mental cul-de-sac as David Carr when it comes to the future of news consumption. In his Slate column responding to what he calls Carr’s “excellent” challenge to invent the “iTunes for news,” Shafer...
Abnormal Returns, January 13, 2009
...of interest not only to us, but to the wider world of blogs and journalism as well. David Carr at NYTimes.com notes the challenges facing the print media and the few instances of where paying for content makes sense. 37signals picked up on this...
Jossip, December 30, 2008
...David Carr had all the bio glory late this summer, when his much-anticipated Night of the Gun hit books stores, chronicling the New York Times journalist's battle with drug addiction...
Book Review, December 30, 2008
...This week: The Times's David Carr discusses a new bio of Rupert Murdoch; Motoko Rich has Notes from the Field; Times reporter and editor Dana Canedy talks about her memoir, "A Journal for Jordan"; and...
Paper Cuts, December 26, 2008
...This week: The Times’s David Carr on a new biography of Rupert Murdoch; Motoko Rich with Notes From the Field; Dana Canedy discusses her memoir, “A Journal for Jordan”; and Jennifer Schuessler has best-seller news...
mathewingram.com/work, December 23, 2008
...David Carr, a writer for the New York Times, is a pretty interesting guy — he kicked a cocaine habit and went on to become a respected journalist at one of...
Newspaper Death Watch, December 16, 2008
...we’re very happy to have many readers in the Tampa Bay region.” The New York Times ’s David Carr says newspapers have found an unlikely ally in besieged Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich . According to a criminal complaint filed by the United...
Omnivoracious, November 25, 2008
...Charles Baxter, Leif Enger, Siri Hustvedt, Walter Kirn, Arthur Phillips, and the late Jon Hassler; to memoirists like David Carr, Patricia Hampl, Bill Holm, and Samuel Hynes; and writers who cross genres like Robert Bly and Philip Dray. Their work will...
