{"id":8806,"date":"2025-03-07T18:43:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T02:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/blurbs-and-endorsements-by-carroll\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T18:43:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T02:43:38","slug":"blurbs-and-endorsements-by-carroll","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/blurbs-and-endorsements-by-carroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Blurbs and Endorsements by Carroll"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/blurbs-and-endorsements-by-carroll\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blurbs and Endorsements by Carroll<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":6,"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-8806","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9VlUH-2i2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/","url_meta":{"origin":8806,"position":0},"title":"Literary Works","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"May 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This page provides an overview of literary works by, about, and recommended by Jim Carroll, broken out by category. Poetry Books Diaries & Fiction (books) Limited Editions & Broadsides Translations Anthologies Photography Books Collaborations with other writers Cultural Context: Biographies & Histories Books influenced by Carroll Blurbs and Endorsements by\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/","url_meta":{"origin":8806,"position":1},"title":"Words | Music | Film","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"May 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Jim Carroll's published ouvre includes literary works, recordings, and films. In the index below, the main headings link to broad overviews for individual categories, while the subcategory headings link to more detailed subcategory overviews (where you can also order items online). The subcategory indexes link to details about individual works.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8653,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/diaries-and-fiction-by-jim-carroll\/the-basketball-diaries\/the-basketball-diaries-1987-penguin-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":8806,"position":2},"title":"The Basketball Diaries (1987 Penguin Edition)","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"March 6, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Basketball DiariesThird EditionBy: Jim CarrollRepublished: 1987Publisher: PenguinFormat: PaperbackCover photograph: Rosemary CarrollCover design:\u00a0Melissa JacobyHand-coloring:\u00a0Neil Stuart The Penguin (third) edition of\u00a0The Basketball Diaries\u00a0uses 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. See\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\/bd3cov.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8649,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/diaries-and-fiction-by-jim-carroll\/the-basketball-diaries\/the-basketball-diaries-first-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":8806,"position":3},"title":"The Basketball Diaries (First Edition)","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"March 6, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Basketball Diaries: 1963-1966First EditionBy: Jim CarrollPublished: 1978Publisher: Tombouctou Press (Bolinas, CA)Format: PaperbackCover photograph: Rosemary Klemfuss The first edition of\u00a0The Basketball Diaries, the only one (from what booksellers tell me) that has any value as a collectors' item, has a number of distinctive characteristics. First, the cover photograph, by Rosemary\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"Jim Carroll- First Edition of The Basketball Diaries 1978","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":4036,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/photos-video-audio\/press-photos\/","url_meta":{"origin":8806,"position":4},"title":"Press Photos","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The photos on this page may be reprinted provided the photographers are credited. Photographer credit:Jim Carroll (1998) \u00a9Ray Lego\/Cut the Fat Jim Carroll (1998) \u00a9Ray Lego\/Cut the FatDownload Photographer credit:Jim Carroll (1998) \u00a9Ray Lego\/Cut the Fat Jim Carroll (1998) \u00a9Ray Lego\/Cut the FatDownload Photographer credit:Jim Carroll (1998) \u00a9Ray Lego\/Cut the\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"Jim Carroll (1998) \u00a9Ray Lego\/Cut the Fat","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/JC1998_bw_001.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/JC1998_bw_001.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/JC1998_bw_001.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4056,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/jim-carroll-music-and-spoken-word\/music-jim-carroll-jim-carroll-band\/","url_meta":{"origin":8806,"position":5},"title":"Music by Jim Carroll &#038; The Jim Carroll Band","author":"catholicboy.com","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Runaway EP Released: 2000 By: Jim Carroll Label: Kill Rock Stars Get this recording on Amazon Pools of Mercury Released: 1998 By: Jim Carroll Label: Mercury Get this recording on Amazon A World Without Gravity: The Best of the Jim Carroll Band Released: 1993 By: The Jim Carroll Band Label:\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"Cover Art - Runaway EP (2000) - by Jim Carroll","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/runaway.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8806","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=8806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8807,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8806\/revisions\/8807"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=8806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}