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...Every memoir is in one sense an argument--a writer's version of his or her past. But, as readers who cashed in their debunked copies of A Million Little Pieces know, recent memoirs have been just as notable for the arguments they raise about the intersection of fact, truth and memory...
Attuned to these and other pitfalls of inaccuracy (he was friends with Jayson Blair at the Times), Carr sets out to "report" his memoir, which is to say he digs up his medical and police files and conducts some 60 interviews with people who knew him then and know him now, from his parents to his rehab counselors to his grownup twin daughters. Wary of painting a distorted self-portrait, he offers up a researched composite instead...
...opening scene, with its choice of desk or drug habit, introduces one of the book's most unsettling truths: that despite Carr's recollection that he cleaned up his act to care for his newborn daughters, the more compelling factor was his professional ambition. Much of the memoir's emotional heft involves Carr's coming to terms with this idea, realizing that for him, work is, "in some twisted way, more sacred, more worthy of protection, than friends, loved ones, and family...
TORI SPELLING, mother of a 1-year-old, to pen parenting memoir...
...PAUL to follow up The Revolution: A Manifesto with memoir...