Not only does New York Times business beater David Carr get the huge publicity of an excerpt in The New York Times Magazine, he also gets a review in the Times' Books section. This is one of the perks of being a reformed crackhead and semi-reformed alcoholic who turned a lifetime of beating women and ignoring his children into a cushy gig at the nation's leading newspaper. So what does his own newspaper think? For starters, that Carr is an "excellent" media columnist. And, in the nearly 1,000 words he spends on his audit, reviewer Pete Hamill — sober alcoholic, author of A Drinking Life, and one-time David Remnick critic — had exactly one negative thing to say about the book.

And it is:

In an annoying stylistic device, all [characters from Carr's past] bear only first names, like people at an A.A. meeting.

Otherwise, give this man a National Book Award!