I came to know of Jim Carroll via the book The Basketball Diaries, not unlike everyone else I was going to school with at VCU in the very early eighties. Truth is, TBD is a fun read – not unlike Trainspotting is a fun movie. (irony intended)
It wasn’t until I started reading his poetry that I really started to understand how interesting an artist he really was. I still read his work and will miss the fact that I wont be able to read what he might have produced in the future.