LIES JIM CARROLL TOLD ME
From an interview ©1995 by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain - Jim Carroll came to my studio apartment on St. Marks Place one afternoon on June 16th, 1995 to be interviewed by myself and Gillian McCain for our book in progress, Please Kill Me; The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. Jim was in great shape and had one of those unmistakable New York City accents that left no doubt he was a native New Yorker. He first came to prominence when he published his memoir-in-progress, The Basketball Diaries in excerpt form throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s; most notably in the Fall 1970 issue of The Paris Review— and became the talk of the town.
