Carroll, Jim, The Basketball Diaries, Tombouctou Books, 1978, reprint, Penguin Books, 1995.
—, Catholic Boy, Atco, 1980.
—, Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries, 1971-1973, Penguin Books, 1987, p. vi.
Carter, Cassie, "'A Sickness That Takes Years to Perfect': Jim Carroll's Alchemical Vision," in Dionysos: Literature and Addiction Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 1, Winter 1996, pp. 6-19.
Delacorte, Peter, "A Follow-Through beyond the Hoop," in the San Francisco Chronicle, July 12, 1987, p. 3.
Gilbert, Martin, A History of the Twentieth Century, Vol. 3, 1952-1999, Perennial, 2000, p. 307.
Graustark, Barbara, "Mean Streets," in Newsweek, Vol. 96, No. 10, September 8, 1980, pp. 80-81.
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