Jim Carroll’s bestselling memoir, The Basketball Diaries, was first released in 1978 and adapted into a film in 1995. Carroll’s work includes several collections of poetry as well as a second memoir, Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971–1973.
If Jim Carroll’s The Basketball Diaries reads like an homage to Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, his posthumously published The Petting Zoo finds the author paying tribute to
