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David Carr: Truth and Lies in Life and Art

Presented by the PuSh Festival with the North Shore Credit Union Centre for the Performing Arts at Capilano University, NSCU Centre at Capilano University, Feb 3, 7:30PM. A lecture with the always-fascinating David Carr—New York Times columnist, author of The Night of the Gun, and featured interviewee in the documentary Page One: Inside the New York Times. $25-28 at Capilano University, capilanou.ca or 604.990.7810. pushfestival.ca. Supported by Pacific Arbour.

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David Carr

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to welcome David Carr as he discusses and signs The Night of the Gun: A Reporter investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own.
"There may be no memoirist who has more skillfully used journalistic tools to reconstruct his own life than New York Times media columnist David Carr in his remarkable and harrowing book, The Night of the Gun....A."
-- Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly
"The Night of the Gun is in part a writerly exercise in defense and disarmament--memoir in the throes of an existential crisis. But that does not prevent it from being a great read. This is largely because, in using his reporter's chops to investigate his own past, Carr taps the very skills that propelled him to survive. His method, as much as his madness, is the story."
-- Time "The Night of the Gun is about as dark and murky as dark and murky get. And though it is one of the most eloquent accounts of the seduction and snare of addiction, what's gotten lost in the water-cooler discussion about Carr's misadventures -- including drug peddling as well as his bout with cancer -- is that this book, in its sharp, serrated prose, is a meditation on how memory works (but mostly how it doesn't), a man's obsessive effort to get at his life's true narrative using the skills he's honed as a reporter, the one piece of his life that didn't combust."
-- George Lynell, L.A. Times (booksense)… (more)

David Carr discusses The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of his Life--His Own.

Come hear journalist David Carr discuss 'The Night of the Gun: a reporter investigates the darkest story of his life, his own.'

In 'The Night of the Gun,' David Carr tells of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crack-house regular to regular columnist for 'The New York Times.' Built on 60 videotaped interviews, legal and medical records, and three years of reporting, Carr uses the tools of journalism to fact-check the past. (KingRat)… (more)