INSPIRATION: COCAINE ADDICT TURN MEDIA COLUMNIST!

When reporter David Carr began thinking about writing his life story, he found he couldn't trust his own memory. Was it his best friend who pulled the gun on Carr some 20 years ago when Carr -- fired from a job and thrown out of a bar -- tried to kick in his friend's front door and broke a window, as Carr remembered it, or was it Carr himself who held the gun?

Armed with a video camera and digital recorder, Carr revisited his old haunts and interviewed ex-girlfriends, former employers and people he did drugs with. The result is "The Night of the Gun," a memoir that traces Carr's rise from cocaine addict to single dad raising twin girls to sobered-up media columnist for The New York Times. Read the rest of this interesting life story at the source......

Source: AP via CNN