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

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I thought this fact was in this, The Greatest Celebrity Magazine Profile of Our Time - Lil Uzi Vert Can’t Be Bothered (FADER, issue 108, Mar/Apr 2017). If you’ve already done that, your item hasn’t arrived, or it’s not as described, you can report that to Etsy by opening a case.

Before there was a “cop on every corner” in New York, there were some of the most interesting characters frolicking around, bounding up and down the streets as if they were players in a real-life version of a very fucked up Wonderland. Momaday’s exploration of genre continued in The Way to Rainy ­Mountain (1969), a hybrid of Kiowa folklore, historical commentary, and memoir; The Names (1976), a family history that glides through streams of consciousness; and his second novel, The Ancient Child (1989), a swirl of fragments that features Billy the Kid, abstract painting, and “bear medicine. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. Jim often gets mixed up in police affairs but is usually able to avoid being arrested out of eloquence.

In the conversations for this interview, which Layli Long Soldier began on the phone in 2021 and which I continued over several clear-skied afternoons earlier this year, he was gregarious and generous, though he felt no need to answer a question he considered inapt. In the United States, the public was well aware that one mistake on either side could inadvertently trigger World War III.

So we made it for a change because sometimes we’re not so lucky with that mutt and it will tear the leg of your pants off in one chomp, perhaps a good part of your ass with it. Just as the boat is pulling out of the dock, Tony takes out a bottle of CARBONA cleaning fluid and a few rags and suggests that we do a little sniffing to get high. He experiences anxiety as a child, which continues well into his teenage years and fuels his desire to escape reality. In the last diary entry of the book, Carroll surfaces from a four-day high, realizing that he wants to be pure. Having written the novel as a teen, Carroll provides a sense of maturity found amongst the juvenile sense of humor and adolescent angst littered throughout the text.

I guess someone complained once too often lately and I saw her being tucked into an ambulance, very calm about it, while I was coming back from school today. Carroll's work continues to resonate with readers, exploring themes of youth, rebellion, and self-discovery. I’m so glad Carroll didn’t use his teenage writings as a source to look back into his past, but presented them as “then and there”. I can no longer corroborate this story with "facts" (1b) but I insist that this song was released bc Uzi was crowdsurfing at a concert and his phone fell out of his pocket which had the song on it. I guess it's the obvious teenage thirst for knowledge and rebellion, and maybe also the fact that drugs and disease don't make you ugly until you're an adult.

I kept it up for about ten minutes, but by then I was getting too dizzy to handle it and I had to fling down the rag and make it to the side rail, sick as possible. Says James of the book, it "is a literary miracle; a description of the formation of an artistic sensibility written by the artist, not in retrospect, but in the process.

From front to back, it captures the energy and excitement of growing up in New York, with a perfect ignorance of the turbulent times in which the story is set (Fall 1963 to Summer 1966).

Soon, discussion of drugs becomes more present in the proceedings (on page 4, the image of drugs is as simple and relatively carefree as huffing Carbona on rags and then vomiting over the side of the Staten Island ferry – but then it’s weed by page 17, huffing glue within ten pages and then more abstract memories of heroin use not long after that). Willie gets revenge on an assailant by spiking the person's soda with a dangerously large amount of crystal amphetamine.

Carroll has a conversation with a friend and notes that a junkie on a high often curls up like a fetus. 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.