{"id":8653,"date":"2025-03-06T21:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T05:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/diaries-and-fiction-by-jim-carroll\/the-basketball-diaries\/the-basketball-diaries-1987-penguin-edition\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T21:53:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T05:53:59","slug":"the-basketball-diaries-1987-penguin-edition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/diaries-and-fiction-by-jim-carroll\/the-basketball-diaries\/the-basketball-diaries-1987-penguin-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Basketball Diaries (1987 Penguin Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Basketball Diaries<\/em><\/strong>
Third Edition<\/strong>
By:<\/strong> Jim Carroll
<\/em>Republished:<\/strong> 1987
Publisher:<\/strong> Penguin
Format:<\/strong> Paperback
Cover photograph:<\/strong> Rosemary Carroll
Cover design:<\/strong>\u00a0Melissa Jacoby
Hand-coloring:\u00a0<\/strong>Neil Stuart<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Penguin (third) edition of The Basketball Diaries<\/em> uses Rosemary Klemfuss\/Carroll’s photograph of Carroll–the same photograph used for the first edition–but the art direction is different and the photo background is “colorized.” It has no blurbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Basketball Diaries page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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