{"id":10527,"date":"2025-06-19T22:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T05:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/?page_id=10527"},"modified":"2025-06-19T22:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T05:11:20","slug":"margo-tiffen-a-previously-unpublished-jim-carroll-interview-surfaces-poetry-foundation-17-may-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/research\/jim-carrolls-interviews\/margo-tiffen-a-previously-unpublished-jim-carroll-interview-surfaces-poetry-foundation-17-may-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Margo Tiffen, A Previously Unpublished Jim Carroll Interview Surfaces.” Poetry Foundation 17 May 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At Please Kill Me<\/a><\/em>, home of Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil’s latest projects, Margo Tiffen posts a previously unpublished 2001 interview with Jim Carroll<\/a>, recorded at the Bendix Diner in Chelsea, where they were joined by Carroll’s friend Stephen. “He really opened up once we got talking,” Tiffen recounts. “After the interview, Jim and I walked around for awhile, he asked me a lot about myself.” They begin by discussing their friend Daniel Grey Marshall’s book, Still Can’t See Nothin’ Comin’<\/em>, which Carroll blurbed and which initiated the interview. From there:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then I walked him home to his apartment in Chelsea. He was super nice and cool. I did end up interviewing Daniel as well. This was all just a few weeks prior to 9\/11. After that things went so crazy that I never finished the piece on Daniel, and as a result, Jim\u2019s interview has sat unpublished until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim passed away 8 years later on September 11, 2009. He is one of my all-time favorite writers and I\u2019m glad to finally share this interview! \u2013 Margo Tiffen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen: Jim and I have breakfast every Monday and Friday. After he read Dan\u2019s manuscript, I started bringing Dan. Once you bring Dan, then Jordan comes. All these guys are from Wisconsin. Jordan moved into my old space in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim: Stephen and I know a lot of the same people from the scene. Stephen\u2019s a musician and a decorator. He\u2019s a Renaissance Man. Stephen and I started talking after I was in here for awhile, eating breakfast. He turned me on to Dan\u2019s manuscript. Stephen did the cover photo for Dan\u2019s book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen: I did the whole cover. Then they hired someone else and they totally destroyed it. That\u2019s Dan on the front cover. We shot it up in Hudson where I have a little weekend house. Dan and Jordan used to come up every weekend. I shot pictures of Dan doing all kinds of things \u2014 walking the railroad tracks, and this is in front of a cool bar called the Iron Horse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Margo: It\u2019s a great shot. What\u2019d they screw up, the lettering?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen: See this? This is the worst design. You don\u2019t put this kind of lettering over a photo, something that you can\u2019t read. I do typography and I invented a whole new typeface. There was one block, and one block here. It framed all this chaos. Actually the French edition of this book they\u2019re going to maybe use my original cover, which is a lot cooler. It\u2019s Dan standing underneath the Flatiron building and it reminds me of the cover of\u2026 remember the last City of Night<\/em> cover?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim: Uh-huh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen: That kind of cover. We hope that they use something. Harper screwed up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Continue at\u00a0Please Kill Me<\/a><\/em>. [broken link]<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At Please Kill Me, home of Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil’s latest projects, Margo Tiffen posts a previously unpublished 2001 interview with Jim Carroll, recorded at the Bendix Diner in Chelsea, where they were joined by Carroll’s friend Stephen. “He really opened up once we got talking,” Tiffen recounts. “After the interview, Jim and I walked around … Continue reading Margo Tiffen, A Previously Unpublished Jim Carroll Interview Surfaces.” Poetry Foundation 17 May 2017.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3992,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-10527","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9VlUH-2JN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3992,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/research\/jim-carrolls-interviews\/","url_meta":{"origin":10527,"position":0},"title":"Jim Carroll’s Interviews","author":"catholicboy.com","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"These, arranged in reverse chronological order, represent just a few of Carroll's interviews. 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