David Carr’s Daughter On The ‘Grand Caper’ Of Life, And The Grief Of Loss


When New York Times media columnist David Carr died suddenly of previously undiagnosed lung cancer in 2015, he left behind a legacy as a journalist, a mentor and a father.

“He was so good at inspiring confidence in you,” daughter Erin Lee Carr says. “He had an ability to spot talent in a way that I’ve seen sort of unrivaled — whether it be Ta-Nehisi Coates or Lena Dunham or his colleague A.O. Scott at the Times.”

But David Carr’s role as a mentor to his daughter was complicated by his addiction to alcohol and crack cocaine. His 2008 memoir, The Night of the Gun, describes how, earlier in his life, he put Erin and her twin sister Meagan into foster care before eventually getting sober.

In the memoir All That You Leave Behind, Erin, now a documentary filmmaker, writes about how her father’s past affected her life, and how she dealt with her own addiction to alcohol. She sees her book as a continuation of her father’s spirit.

“He talked about life being a grand caper and that we hope it doesn’t end soon … ” she says. “The book is about extending the caper.”

Interview Highlights

On how writing the book was more painful than cathartic

Making films is a collaborative experience and that’s what I do for a living. And writing is this intensely solo activity. And so I was with him in a way. I was next to him, next to his words, I listened to almost every interview he ever did. I really wanted to educate myself in all things David Carr, not just the father which I experienced. But I found it to be so painful to, like, to get access to him in his words in these emails and yet not have him anymore.

On telling people about her father’s history of addiction

I don’t think he thought that I was going to tell anybody about it. He never said, “This is something to be ashamed of.” But he sat my twin and [me] down and said, “This is your story, but you have to be really careful about who you tell it to.” And he talked about that you can’t trade it for intimacy or things like that. I was a little kid. But what I understood from the conversation was that I had a very different origin story than that of other kids I knew growing up, and how that made me different I wasn’t sure. I just knew that he was sober now and he was able to take care of us.

On learning about her father’s past, including the time when he left her and her twin sister alone in a car while he bought drugs

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