[Open Conversations: Public Learning in Libraries and Museums] [By: Carr, David] [September, 2011]

by David Carr

Cultural institutions must reimagine their roles as education facilities for their communities and address the public need for conversations in safe and fair places, thereby renewing their essential place in democratic society. This book explains how. An annotated bibliography of key works A standard bibliography

Genres: Museums

Paperback

First published September 19, 2011

About the author

David Carr was a journalist who wrote for The New York Times. His peers often praised him for his humility and candor.

Carr overcame an addiction to cocaine and wrote about his experiences as an addict in The Night of the Gun. The New Yorker called it "bracingly honest memoir. In sharp and sometimes poetic prose, the author takes a detailed inventory of his years of drug addiction."

In February, 2015 he collapsed in the New York Times newsroom and was pronounced dead shortly after. He was married to Jill Carr and had three children.

Reviews

[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

for my own future reference: more "talky-feely" than practical

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