Research Catalog

Title

All that you leave behind : a memoir / Erin Lee Carr.

Author

Carr, Erin Lee

Publication

• New York : Ballantine Books, [2019]
• ©2019

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xii, 240 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

• David Carr was in the prime of his career when he collapsed in the newsroom of The New York Times in 2015. Shattered by his death, his daughter Erin Lee Carr began combing through their shared correspondence, looking for answers to the questions of how to move forward in life and work without her biggest champion by her side. In the process, Carr came to understand her own workplace missteps, existential crises, relationship fails, and toxic relationship with alcohol. Here she examines their mutual addictions and challenges with sobriety. -- adapted from publisher info
• "A celebrated journalist, bestselling author (The Night of the Gun), and recovering addict, David Carr was in the prime of his career when he suffered a fatal collapse in the newsroom of The New York Times in 2015. Shattered by his death, his daughter Erin Lee Carr, at age twenty-seven an up-and-coming documentary filmmaker, began combing through the entirety of their shared correspondence--1,936 items in total. What started as an exercise in grief quickly grew into an active investigation: Did her father's writings contain the answers to the question of how to move forward in life and work without her biggest champion by her side? How could she fill the space left behind by a man who had come to embody journalistic integrity, rigor, and hard reporting, whose mentorship meant everything not just to her but to the many who served alongside him? [This book] is a poignant coming-of-age story that offers a raw and honest glimpse into the multilayered relationship between a daughter and a father. Through this lens, Erin comes to understand her own workplace missteps, existential crises, and relationship fails. While daughter and father bond over their mutual addictions and challenges with sobriety, it is their powerful sense of work and family that comes to ultimately define them. This unique combination of Erin Lee Carr's earnest prose and her father's meaningful words offers a compelling read that shows us what it means to be vulnerable and lost, supported and found. It is a window into love, with all of its fierceness and frustrations."--Dust jacket.

Subjects

• Journalists
• Recovering addicts
• Biographies
• Carr, Erin Lee
• Autobiographies
• United States
• Carr, David, 1956-2015
• Journalists > United States > Biography
• Recovering addicts > United States > Biography
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
• Fathers and daughters > United States

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies.
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238).

Contents

The blue house -- Rain check -- The night in question -- The ghost in you -- It all starts somewhere -- The other woman -- Rites of passage -- How (not) to intern -- Something new -- Holiday party advice -- Far from the tree -- The house of many felled trees -- Stories are there for the telling -- Tyranny of self -- Choose wisely -- The criers get nothing -- Sometimes you get both barrels -- Gut check -- Liability -- Ninety days -- SOS -- Jelly beans -- The experiment -- The water has it now -- The wake -- His second act -- Traces -- The upside of getting fired -- Chatter -- The castle without its El Rey -- If it's not getting better, consider the alternative -- Resentments -- Sad girl's guide -- A glacier first melts at the edges -- Things I learned from David Carr: a list -- Books I read while writing this book.

Call Number

JFD 19-4096

ISBN

• 9780399179716
• 0399179712

LCCN

2018059597

OCLC

1052463809

Author

Carr, Erin Lee, author.

Title

All that you leave behind : a memoir / Erin Lee Carr.

Publisher

New York : Ballantine Books, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238).

Research Call Number

JFD 19-4096