{"id":5724,"date":"2022-01-12T12:15:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T20:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/?page_id=5724"},"modified":"2025-06-11T20:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T03:12:55","slug":"jim-carroll-at-university-of-new-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/research\/performance-reviews\/jim-carroll-at-university-of-new-hampshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Carroll at University\u00a0of New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Jim Carroll at University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH
23 September 1997
Review by Holly Bedard
The New Hampshire Online<\/a>
26 September 1997<\/h5>\n\n\n
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Author, poet, musician Jim Carroll looked out into the sea of over 350 faces that came to see him in the Strafford Room of the MUB Tuesday night. His small, pale, heart-shaped face gleamed the experience of many years, many heartaches, and much wisdom. He began to speak . . . about “crabs.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading “A Day at the Races,” a story from his novel, “Four Centuries [Forced Entries – cc<\/em>],” Carroll, of “The Basketball Diaries” fame, told the crowd a story of love, well, of love and sexually-transmitted “invaders.” He made what would make most people cringe and shutter into a matter which provoked laughter and smiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carroll, brought to UNH as part of MUSO’s Arts Lecture Series, said he began writing around the ripe age of 13. A Christian grade school teacher had coaxed him into the sports editor position at the school paper, and taught Carroll to learn different modes of writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He made me fall in love with writing,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carroll’s thoughts on the movie “The Basketball Diaries,” were near ambivalent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It was O.K,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carroll, with his black Doc Martin-esque shoes, skinny blue jeans and black Superfly leather jacket, seemed a bit tense, while he fought a bout with the sniffles. He read several selections from his novels and finished with his as-of-yet unpublished poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, Carroll is living in New York City and working on two novels and a spoken word album with Mercury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original article is\/was here: http:\/\/www.tnh.unh.edu\/Issues\/092697\/Arts\/carroll.html<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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