Minneapolis Star Tribune | Salon"I couldn't understand why I was the only one who felt relieved when he was gone," says former Twin Cities Reader staffer
Cherie Parker, who worked briefly for
David Carr. During her job interview, "he shouted at me, 'When I was your age, I was selling coke.' I'm, like, 'O-kaaay.'"
Rose Farley, another ex-Reader reporter, recalls Carr as a good editor who "knew how power worked in Minneapolis." His "Night of the Gun" is currently #66 at Amazon.com || Read Carr's
Q-and-A with
Andrew O'Hehir.