A career-spanning selection of the legendary reporter David Carr's
writing for the New York Times, Washington City Paper, New York
Magazine, the Atlantic, and more.
Throughout his 25-year journalistic career, David Carr was noted for his
sharp and fearless observations, his uncanny sense of fairness and
justice, and his remarkable compassion and wit. His writing was informed
both by his own hardships as an addict, and his intense love of the
journalist's craft. His range--from media politics to national politics,
from rock 'n' roll celebrities to the unknown civil servants who make
our daily lives function--was broad and often timeless. Whether he was
breaking exclusives about Amazon or mourning Philip Seymour Hoffman's
death or taking aim at editors who valued political trivia over
substance, Carr's voice and concerns remain enormously influential and
relevant. In these hundred or so articles, from a range of publications,
we read his stories with fresh eyes. Edited by his widow, Jill Rooney
Carr, and with an introduction written by one of the many journalists
David Carr mentored and promoted, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Final Draft is a
singular event in the world of writing news, an art increasingly
endangered in these troubled times.
