David Carr, the New York Times media columnist and enthusiastic storyteller, will release his book The Night of the Gun this fall. But to drum up interest for the trade, he's hitting the annual Book Expo America, where publishing types swarm Los Angeles hotel rooms to discuss advances, manuscripts, and one-night stands. Carr's friend Keith Kelly describes the book as "the antidote to James Frey's A Million Little Pieces." Which is true, if only because Carr's tales of being a drug addict are chronicled, on video tape, by "old girlfriends, drug counse lors, street users, buddies, journalists and editors," who fill in any memory gaps that years of snorting and boozing might cause.