1. An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken:This was the best book I read all year. No hemming, no hawing, no second guessing — the best. McCracken’s memoir about giving…
Posts tagged David Carr
Top 10 of 2008, plus bonus worst 3
The Soul Thief by Charles Baxter: Despite the fact that Charles Baxter induces a plot amnesia that always makes me forget what his books are about within a week of reading them, I am always…
Book Links: A Chuck Klosterman extravaganza
GalleyCat has an interview with Jeffrey Friedman director of “Howl” a movie about the life and times of poet Allen Ginsberg. When I was in college I memorized large chunks of the poem. So enamored…
More thoughts on David Carr [or Carr pe diem]
There are so few ways to deviate from the addiction memoir outline, short of posthumous publication. The plot lines are easy, like a murder mystery or a romance novel. Your hero is a drunk/junkie/bulimic/sex addict….
David Carr Reading
Last week I ventured out to Magers & Quinn to listen to David Carr read from his memoir, The Night of the Gun. It was a great, great reading. If you weren’t one of the…
Carr’s memoir makes me think of forgiveness, honesty, and feminism
The Night of the Gun, David Carr’s memoir haunted me while I was reading it. At night I would dream about the book and Carr (and oddly, various Minnesota journalists), during the day I’d think…
Book Links: More David Carr, Local reviews & some other stuff
The NY Times compiles a nice collection of books ads. What surprised me were the ads featuring the authors smoking. Apparently smoking is totally literary. Girl Detective (one of my favorite Minnesota readers) reviews Anthony…
Book Links
I’m not going to read the Strib’s review of David Carr’s The Night of the Gun, because I’m currently reading the book and really enjoying it. Sometimes I think if I read reviews they influence…