{"id":8657,"date":"2025-03-06T21:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T05:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/diaries-and-fiction-by-jim-carroll\/the-basketball-diaries\/the-basketball-diaries-1995-film-tie-in\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T22:01:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T06:01:48","slug":"the-basketball-diaries-1995-film-tie-in","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-1995-film-tie-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The Basketball Diaries (1995 Film Tie-In)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Basketball Diaries: <\/em><\/strong>
Fourth Edition<\/strong>
By:<\/strong> Jim Carroll
<\/em>Published:<\/strong> 1995
Publisher:<\/strong> Penguin
Format:<\/strong> Paperback
Cover photograph:<\/strong> Leonardo DiCaprio by John Clifford<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 1995 Penguin edition of\u00a0The Basketball Diaries<\/em>\u00a0is a tie-in with the\u00a01995 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a>. The cover features photo of Leonardo DiCaprio (by John Clifford. Film credits and a new blurb are on the back cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Basketball Diaries: Fourth EditionBy: Jim CarrollPublished: 1995Publisher: PenguinFormat: PaperbackCover photograph: Leonardo DiCaprio by John Clifford The 1995 Penguin edition of\u00a0The Basketball Diaries\u00a0is a tie-in with the\u00a01995 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The cover features photo of Leonardo DiCaprio (by John Clifford. Film credits and a new blurb are on the back cover. See Also The … Continue reading The Basketball Diaries (1995 Film Tie-In)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":576,"menu_order":4,"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-8657","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9VlUH-2fD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8692,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/translations-foreign-editions\/basketball-diaries-french-1995\/","url_meta":{"origin":8657,"position":0},"title":"Basketball Diaries French (1995)","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"March 6, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"French Translation of The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll The Basketball DiariesFrench translationTranslated by Thierry MarignacParis: Editiones 10\/18 Publishers1995 edition See also the\u00a0First French edition Thanks to Marie\u00a0Pierre Chalimbaud\u00a0for sharing this translation! 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Protagonist Billy Wolfram, a hot young artist in late 1980s NYC, suffers a psychological and spiritual breakdown while viewing the Met's Velasquez retrospective and desperately\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\/04\/PettingZooLarge.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":576,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/diaries-and-fiction-by-jim-carroll\/the-basketball-diaries\/","url_meta":{"origin":8657,"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":4146,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/jim-carrolls-films\/scott-kalverts-the-basketball-diaries\/the-basketball-diaries-film-guide\/","url_meta":{"origin":8657,"position":3},"title":"The Basketball Diaries Film Guide","author":"catholicboy.com","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"These pages offer reviews and commentary of Scott Kalvert's The Basketball Diaries (1995), a film based upon Jim Carroll's autobiographical book of the same title. Because the film is at best tangential to Jim Carroll's work and biography, what you will find here is not especially praiseful of the film.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7316,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/jim-carrolls-films\/scott-kalverts-the-basketball-diaries\/","url_meta":{"origin":8657,"position":4},"title":"Scott Kalvert’s The Basketball Diaries","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"March 30, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Fair use, Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim Carroll The Basketball Diaries Released: 1995Director: Scott KalvertStudio: Island PicturesGenre: DramaFormat: VHS, DVD, LaserdiscRating: R (Restricted)Run Time: 102 Minutes Leonardo DiCaprio stars as \"Jim\" in this controversial, very loose adaptation of Carroll's autobiography. 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Jim Entra Nel Campo Di Basket: Diario Di Un Adolescente Nelle Strade Di New York(\"Jim on the Basketball Court: Diary of an Adolescent on the\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\/03\/algunos-poemas-de-jim-carroll-2016.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/algunos-poemas-de-jim-carroll-2016.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/algunos-poemas-de-jim-carroll-2016.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/algunos-poemas-de-jim-carroll-2016.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8657","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=8657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8867,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8657\/revisions\/8867"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=8657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}