Jim Carroll, Punk, Poet from NYC, a cult figure, who lived and brought the feeling from 70's and 80's, dies at 60. He was praised by such literary icons as Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac.
L.A. Times:
"The Basketball Diaries" was a collection of autobiographical stories that had been excerpted in literary magazines before Carroll put them into book form. It begins with a 1963 entry describing his excitement at playing his first game in a basketball league, but Carroll quickly establishes that he is no choirboy, detailing how his coach gropes him, how he snatches purses from elderly women, how he gets high sniffing cleaning fluid on the ferry and vomits all over a "fantastically huge man" on the deck below. The tale grows darker as it chronicles his descent over the next few years into heroin addiction, which he supports through prostitution.
here is an interview via Dangerous Minds with him, where he discusses the effect of the WTC bombing on life and art. Originally published October 24, 2001.
Photo via Dangerous Minds
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