{"id":4709,"date":"2022-01-10T22:17:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/?page_id=4229"},"modified":"2025-03-07T21:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T05:19:36","slug":"the-basketball-diaries-audio-literature-publishers-weekly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/research\/music-reviews\/the-basketball-diaries-audio-literature-publishers-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Basketball Diaries (Audio Literature)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Publishers Weekly 241.49 (5 Dec. 1994): 34<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim Carroll. Read by the author with musical accompaniment by Lenny Kaye, Audio Literature. Two cassettes, 180 rains., $16.95 ISBN 0-944993-87-7<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the early 1960s Carroll was a scrappy New York City teen, a basketball phenom and an above-average scholar. He was also a fiendishly dedicated heroin addict who lost his “virgin veins” around age 13. These are his diaries from that time, a set of Tom Sawyer-style adventures peopled with drunks, dopers and hustlers. Carroll, now a poet and sometime rock musician living in New York, reads in a voice that trembles and shakes with a hesitant delicacy. He still manages to evoke his wiseass teenage outlook and a tough anger at the world. But the entries also record the voice of a young poet emerging, a beat romantic digging the perverse beauty of the down-and-out. Carroll’s deadpan humor lifts this program above bleak morbidity. Carroll at 13: “It’s a Friday night and all we wanted to do was go down to the East River Park and get drunk, do reefer and sniff glue–and that’s exactly what we did.” Later, he gets a scholarship to an “ultrarich private school” and ends up doing a stint in a Riker’s Island juvenile hall. Providing quite the ride on audio, Carroll’s kiddie William Burroughs tale is slated to be adapted to a movie starring Leonard DiCaprio. Based on the 1969 [sic] Penguin Books edition. (Dec.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a91994 Reed Publishing USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Publishers Weekly 241.49 (5 Dec. 1994): 34 Jim Carroll. Read by the author with musical accompaniment by Lenny Kaye, Audio Literature. Two cassettes, 180 rains., $16.95 ISBN 0-944993-87-7 In the early 1960s Carroll was a scrappy New York City teen, a basketball phenom and an above-average scholar. He was also a fiendishly dedicated heroin addict … Continue reading The Basketball Diaries (Audio Literature)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3987,"menu_order":3,"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":[36],"class_list":["post-4709","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9VlUH-1dX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8855,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/jim-carroll-music-and-spoken-word\/spoken-word-lecture-recordings-by-jim-carroll\/basketball-diaries-audio-literature\/","url_meta":{"origin":4709,"position":0},"title":"The Basketball Diaries (Audio Literature)","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"March 7, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Cover Art: The Basketball Diaries Audiobook The Basketball DiariesBy:\u00a0Jim CarrollRead by:\u00a0Jim CarrollPublished:\u00a01995Publisher:\u00a0Audio LiteratureFormat:\u00a0audio cassetteCover photo:\u00a0Michael ZagarisMusic by:\u00a0Lenny Kaye In this Audio Literature presentation, consisting of two audiotapes, Jim Carroll reads his cult classic book\u00a0The Basketball Diaries, which he wrote between the ages of 12 and 16, from 1962 to 1966.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"Cover Art: The Basketball Diaries Audiobook","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/bdaudio.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3998,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/research\/jim-carroll-bibliographies\/jim-carroll-a-secondary-bibliography-1969-1996\/","url_meta":{"origin":4709,"position":1},"title":"Jim Carroll: A Secondary Bibliography, 1969-1996","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Home > Research > Bibliographies > Jim Carroll: A Secondary Bibliography, 1969-1996 Jim Carroll: A Secondary Bibliography, 1969-1996 By Cassie Carter Updated 7 June 1997 My original, annotated bibliography appeared in Bulletin of Bibliography 47.2 (1990). I occasionally update the secondary works section (works ABOUT Jim Carroll) via this page,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":576,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/diaries-and-fiction-by-jim-carroll\/the-basketball-diaries\/","url_meta":{"origin":4709,"position":2},"title":"The Basketball Diaries: Editions","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"August 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Carroll wrote his autobiographical tales of \"growing up hip\" on New York's mean streets\" between the ages of 12 and 16, from 1962 to 1966. Carroll earned a scholarship to a posh private school (see\u00a0Trinity Yearbook page) and spent his time playing basketball, stealing, hustling gay men to support his\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/bd1cov.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3987,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/research\/music-reviews\/","url_meta":{"origin":4709,"position":3},"title":"Audio Reviews","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some reviews of \"audio recordings.\" So far the reviews are of albums by the Jim Carroll Band and solo albums by Jim Carroll\u00a0. More to come later . . . Runaway EP Matt Ashare, \"Jim Carroll:\u00a0Runaway.\"\u00a0Boston Phoenix, 4-11 Jan. 2001.\"Carroll gives 'Runaway' his best shot, and he gets\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4216,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/research\/feature-articles\/diaries-authors-life-an-open-book\/","url_meta":{"origin":4709,"position":4},"title":"‘Diaries’ Author’s Life an Open Book","author":"catholicboy.com","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"By Curtis RossTampa Bay Tribune 1 November 2002 TAMPA - Jim Carroll didn't stand much chance of passing his draft board physical. Well into the heroin addiction he would chronicle so harrowingly in \"The Basketball Diaries,\" the 19-year-old Carroll had taken the extra precautions of getting high before heading to\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9560,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/background\/friends-influences\/important-people-in-carrolls-life-and-work\/artistic-influences-mentors-supporters\/arthur-rimbaud\/","url_meta":{"origin":4709,"position":5},"title":"Arthur Rimbaud","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"May 21, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Portrait of Arthur Rimbaud at the age of seventeen, by \u00c9tienne Carjat, c. 1872. (Open Source) French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) has been a tremendous inspiration and influence on avant garde art and literature since at least the 1960s in the USA, and his life and work were especially influential\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-15.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-15.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-15.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7810,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4709\/revisions\/7810"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}