Jim Carroll R.I.P.
Dear Mr. Jim Carroll:
I am sorry to hear that you died. If it weren’t for The Basketball Diaries, I might have quit the basketball team and gotten addicted to heroin and lived through a bunch of bad stuff and then written a bestselling novel about it and had Leonardo DiCaprio portray me in a movie. But I read your book and realized that wasn’t cool so I never did it. Also I can’t play basketball.
Lest I come across as flippant, let me just say you were a great writer and poet and you will be missed. In your honor:
