Night of the Gun: NYT David Carr's Upcoming Memoir

The NYT Magazine is running an excerpt this weekend taken from Times media columnist David Carr’s upcoming memo about drug addiction.

On the face of it, I am no more qualified to take my own inventory than the addict with the fetid dreads who spare-changes people on the subway while singing “Stand by Me.” Ask him how he ended up sweating people for quarters, and he may have an answer, but he doesn’t really know and probably couldn’t bear it if he did.


To be an addict is to be something of a cognitive acrobat.

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