The Basketball Diaries: The Classic about Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets

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Regardless, Carrol’s memories of this time evoke a sense of innocence that is about to be corrupted in a manner that can never be uncorrupted. Carroll’s diary chronicles his teenage years of drug addiction in New York City during the mid-1960s. Brian Browning is one of Carroll's junkie friends and is one of two men who rent the apartment that serves as Headquarters—the local junkie hangout.

Since retiring from professorship, Momaday has become only more productive, publishing three books in the past three years. I just get the images from the upstairs vault (it all comes as images) and fling ’em around like bricks, sometimes clean and smooth and then sloppy and ready to fall on top of you later. As a result, the diarist may jump around and discuss many topics, instead of developing one major plot, as other kinds of storytellers do. Carroll's work continues to resonate with readers, exploring themes of youth, rebellion, and self-discovery.Many of them, such as Jamie James in his 1980 review of the book for American Book Review, discuss the gritty nature of the book.

Folks know he has game, but they never know exactly what game is going to show up at any given time. The language is also bold and colloquial, adding to the youthful New York aesthetic, helping to paint an even clearer picture of Carroll’s world for the reader. He actually becomes a stick up artist holding knifes to little old ladies but is too far gone to see anything wrong with this. Hippies wore their hair long, dressed in deliberately shabby clothes, and believed in nonviolent forms of antiwar protest such as sit-ins and peace marches. Momaday was as willing to perform the stories he has told many times as he was to consider them anew.So he statued himself in some insane position and the mutt came up to him, sort of sniffed at him for a second or two, and just as old Sam felt relieved, it bit him accordingly right square in the bum-bum. Jim often gets mixed up in police affairs but is usually able to avoid being arrested out of eloquence. It also featured Lorraine Bracco, Mark Wahlberg, Juliette Lewis, Ernie Hudson, and a small role for Carroll himself. Four days of temporary death gone by, no more bread, with its hundreds of nods and casual theories, soaky nostalgia (I could have got that for free walking along Fifth Avenue at noon), at any rate, a thousand goofs, some still hazy in my noodle. The story of a traumatized Second World War veteran who struggles to resume his life on the pueblo, it shrewdly combines Modernist techniques and Native traditions.