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Carder Stout: Lost in Ghost Town

Carder Stout’s life morphed from self-absorbed rich kid to junkie when he tried crack cocaine for the first time. His identity disappeared, along with his grandmother’s silver, both sold to support his habit. His intense craving for the euphoric rock landed him in Ghost Town, the dangerous Oakwood neighborhood of Venice Beach, California. Junkies, scammers, hustlers, and dealers became his tribe, and he became a driver for Flyn, a venerated former member of the Shoreline Crips. He knew his days were numbered: he either had to give up crack and drug dealing—or give up his life. But amid the terror and misery, Stout found the first tendrils of hope from an unlikely source: Flyn and his grandmother, Beatrice, who took him in and provided the family he’d always coveted—and a way out.

The horrors of how addiction trumped privilege are stark in Carder Stout, Ph.D.’s vivid memoir, Lost in Ghost Town: A Memoir of Addiction, Redemption and Hope in Unlikely Places. A tale of excruciating truth and visceral fear, Stout takes us into the incapacitating stranglehold of addiction and his combat-zone battle to overcome it.

The son of a socialite mother and a workaholic father (the founder of National Journal magazine), Stout lived in a 7,000-square-foot mansion, attended a top boarding school, climbed the Himalayan peaks, and swam with sharks on the Great Barrier Reef. His life was filled with lavish parties attended by Oscar contenders and jet-setters. But that life became a fairy-tale memory when Stout began using drugs.

In the Rare Book Room, Carder Stout, now sober for 14 ½ years, tells the story of his fall from grace and escape from death in this scared-straight tale of a golden boy hitting crack-rock bottom.











When: Mon., Mar. 9, 2020 at 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: The Strand
828 Broadway
212-473-1452
Price: $15-$16.95
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Carder Stout’s life morphed from self-absorbed rich kid to junkie when he tried crack cocaine for the first time. His identity disappeared, along with his grandmother’s silver, both sold to support his habit. His intense craving for the euphoric rock landed him in Ghost Town, the dangerous Oakwood neighborhood of Venice Beach, California. Junkies, scammers, hustlers, and dealers became his tribe, and he became a driver for Flyn, a venerated former member of the Shoreline Crips. He knew his days were numbered: he either had to give up crack and drug dealing—or give up his life. But amid the terror and misery, Stout found the first tendrils of hope from an unlikely source: Flyn and his grandmother, Beatrice, who took him in and provided the family he’d always coveted—and a way out.

The horrors of how addiction trumped privilege are stark in Carder Stout, Ph.D.’s vivid memoir, Lost in Ghost Town: A Memoir of Addiction, Redemption and Hope in Unlikely Places. A tale of excruciating truth and visceral fear, Stout takes us into the incapacitating stranglehold of addiction and his combat-zone battle to overcome it.

The son of a socialite mother and a workaholic father (the founder of National Journal magazine), Stout lived in a 7,000-square-foot mansion, attended a top boarding school, climbed the Himalayan peaks, and swam with sharks on the Great Barrier Reef. His life was filled with lavish parties attended by Oscar contenders and jet-setters. But that life became a fairy-tale memory when Stout began using drugs.

In the Rare Book Room, Carder Stout, now sober for 14 ½ years, tells the story of his fall from grace and escape from death in this scared-straight tale of a golden boy hitting crack-rock bottom.

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