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Jim Carroll Information
863 words, approx. 3 pages
 Apart from being interested in writing, Carroll was a passionate basketball player throughout his grade school and middle school career. He entered the "Biddy League" at age 13 and participated in the National High School All Star Game in 1966, hence...



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 The Boston Globe
Jim Carroll's vision
06/29/1995: 329 words, approx. 1 pages "One margarita," said New York-based, punk-poet-rocker Jim Carroll, regarding his drink as he took the stage at the Lansdowne Playhouse Friday night, looking semi-disoriented and seeming flabbergasted by the low positioning of the podium and microphone. "I told 'em 'Don't make it strong'," he...
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 The Boston Globe
Jim Carroll
07/27/2003: 161 words, approx. 1 pages The Sudbury native and West Roxbury resident is the producer/ writer of the documentary "The Nobska," about the nation's last coastal steamboat. From 1925 to 1973, the Nobska, now undergoing restoration at the Charlestown Navy Yard, took passengers from New Bedford and Woods Hole...



Literary Criticism
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Interview by Jim Carroll with Suzan Alteri
6,917 words, approx. 23 pages
 In the following interview, Alteri questions Carroll about his spoken-word recordings, his feelings about poetry, his drug addiction, and the conflict between his musical career and his literary aspirations.
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Critical Essay by Cassie Carter
5,684 words, approx. 19 pages
 In the following essay, Carter offers an assessment of Carroll's diaries, poems, and rock lyrics. Carter discusses the role of Carroll's drug use and addiction in the “ongoing struggle to transform the raw materials of his life into a pure reality” that defines him as an artist.
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Critical Essay by Chet Flippo
3,618 words, approx. 12 pages
 In the following essay, Flippo addresses Carroll's move from poetry writer to rock musician and interviews the poet/songwriter about his life, his former drug addiction, and his literary influences.


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