The Basketball Diaries
The Basketball Diaries

Author: Jim Carroll

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1987-07-07

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0140100180

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The urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball Jim Carroll grew up to become a renowned poet and punk rocker. But in this memoir of the mid-1960s, set during his coming-of-age from 12 to 15, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name for himself on the unforgiving streets of New York City. During these years, he chronicled his experiences, and the result is a diary of unparalleled candor that conveys his alternately hilarious and terrifying teenage existence. Here is Carroll prowling New York City--playing basketball, hustling, stealing, getting high, getting hooked, and searching for something pure. The Basketball Diaries was the basis for the film of the same name starring Leonardo DiCaprio. "I met him in 1970, and already he was pretty much universally recognized as the best poet of his generation. . . . The work was sophisticated and elegant. He had beauty." -- Patti Smith

The Petting Zoo
The Petting Zoo

Author: Jim Carroll

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-11-04

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1101445262

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A moving, vividly rendered novel from the late author of The Basketball Diaries. When poet, musician, and diarist Jim Carroll died in September 2009, he was putting the finishing touches on a potent work of fiction. The Petting Zoo tells the story of Billy Wolfram, an enigmatic thirty- eight-year-old artist who has become a hot star in the late-1980s New York art scene. As the novel opens, Billy, after viewing a show of Velázquez paintings, is so humbled and awed by their spiritual power that he suffers an emotional breakdown and withdraws to his Chelsea loft. In seclusion, Billy searches for the divine spark in his own work and life. Carroll's novel moves back and forth in time to present emblematic moments from Billy's life (his Irish Catholic upbringing, his teenage escapades, his evolution as an artist and meteoric rise to fame) and sharply etched portraits of the characters who mattered most to him, including his childhood friend Denny MacAbee, now a famous rock musician; his mentor, the unforgettable art dealer Max Bernbaum; and one extraordinary black bird. Marked by Carroll's sharp wit, hallucinatory imagery, and street-smart style, The Petting Zoo is a frank, haunting examination of one artist's personal and professional struggles.

Void of Course
Void of Course

Author: Jim Carroll

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1998-10-01

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0140589090

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In 1973, at the age of twenty-three, Jim Carroll burst upon the poetry scene with his first collection, Living at the Movies, a book of vivid and inventive verse that won him comparisons to everyone from Arthur Rimbaud to Frank O'Hara. Carroll's first new book of poetry in more than a decade, Void of Course presents work composed over the last two years. His major themes--love, friendship, desire, time and memory, and, above all, the ever-present city--emerge in an atmosphere where dream and reality mingle on equal terms. These seventy-seven poems range from graphic, sensuous shorter pieces to edgy stream-of-consciousness prose poems to longer, more contemplative works such as "While She's Gone," an eerie tour de force of longing over a departed lover. Void of Course establishes that Carroll's power and purity of vision are stronger than ever.

The Book of Basketball
The Book of Basketball

Author: Bill Simmons

Publisher: ESPN

Published: 2010-12-07

Total Pages: 754

ISBN-13: 0345520106

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The NBA according to The Sports Guy—now updated with fresh takes on LeBron, the Celtics, and more! Foreword by Malcom Gladwell • “The work of a true fan . . . it might just represent the next phase of sports commentary.”—The Atlantic Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN’s The Sports Guy, has written the definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA. From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball. Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game’s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.

Divided Loyalties
Divided Loyalties

Author: Bob Hurley

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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A unique, inside look at the exciting world of college basketball--from a famous basketball coach and father. On March 26, 1992--for the first time in the history of the NCAA tournament--two brothers opposed one another: Bobby Hurley faced his little brother Danny as Duke battled Seton Hall.

Acid Heroes
Acid Heroes

Author: Ace Backwords

Publisher:

Published: 2009-05-21

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 9781442122130

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The psychedelic Sixties and the aftermath, as seen from the perspective of a fully-participating Berkeley acid head, along with an exploration of the credit and/or blame assigned to the Beatles, Ram Dass, Alan Watts, Hunter S. Thompson, R. Crumb, Jerry Garcia, Timothy Leary, and Carlos Castaneda.

We Came to Play!
We Came to Play!

Author: John Ross

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13:

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Setting their literary picks with the elegance of the Pearl, point guard Ross and off guard Hand have spun a masterpiece. Their roster includes some bona-fide all-stars, more than a few hall-of-famers (plus a certain ringer of two): Bill Cosby, John Updike, Jim Carroll, John R. Tunis, Tom Meschery, Roy Blount, Jr., Yusef Komunyakaa, Stanley Cohen, Susan Orlean, Madeleine Blaise, Jeremy Larner, Bill Russell, Rick Telander, Pete Axthelm, John McPhee, John Edgar Wideman, William Matthews, Woody Allen, Bill Bradley, Quincy Troupe, Al Attles, Gino Sky, John Valenti, Stephen Dunn, and many others. Hand and Ross tip their hats to Daniel Rudman whose earlier North Atlantic anthology,Take it to the Hoop, lit the way.

Sign My Book
Sign My Book

Author: Shameless Book Club

Publisher: Blurb

Published: 2015-01-05

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781320333931

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Dear Reader, Please use this autograph book at signings, book expos, or anywhere you might meet your favorite author. It's meant to be a fun & easy way to get to know them. Dear Author, Please sign this book where the reader asks you to sign. Or if you're feeling frisky, sign it wherever you want. Be shameless.