Both enthralling and appalling, The Night of the Gun lays out in merciless detail Carr's rise from Minnesota's alternative papers to Times media columnist while wallowing in a dangerous double life. On and on goes this painful selfexamination, like "crawling over broken glass in the dark": Carr doing drugs with a 15-year-old girl, biting and choking women, and surviving both Hodgkin's lymphoma and at least nine arrests.

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