Slate's Audio Book Club: The Night of the Gun, by David Carr

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3.8 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2008

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Slate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and Troy Patterson discuss New York Times columnist David Carr's The Night of the Gun, a memoir in which he uses his journalistic skills to dig up the details he's forgotten about his earlier life as a drug addict. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. The next book we'll be discussing is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.8	I'm Megan O'Rourke, Slate's culture critic, and joining me today are Troy Patterson, the television critic of Slate.
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1:08.2	And Katie Roifie, a professor at NYU and a regular contributor to the audiobook club.
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1:15.2	Today, we're discussing The Night of the Gun, a memoir by David Carr, which is subtitled,
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