Jim Carroll wrote memoir, poetry and fiction about adolescence, addiction, basketball and New York street life. The Basketball Diaries collects journal entries from his teenage years, moving between school, competitive basketball, petty crime, heroin use and the downtown culture surrounding him. The book’s immediacy comes from its diary form: experiences are recorded with youthful confidence and little retrospective explanation. Forced Entries continues into later years and the New York arts scene, while Carroll’s poetry collections show a more compressed and literary side of his writing. His prose can be funny, harsh and matter-of-fact even when describing dangerous drug use. His work sits within addiction memoir, New York writing and youth counterculture. The Basketball Diaries is the central title for readers interested in a first-person record of talent and self-destruction developing side by side. Read more Less
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