{"id":8897,"date":"2025-03-07T22:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T06:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/diaries-and-fiction-by-jim-carroll\/forced-entries-the-downtown-diaries-jim-carroll-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T22:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T06:52:11","slug":"forced-entries-the-downtown-diaries-jim-carroll-first-edition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/diaries-and-fiction-by-jim-carroll\/forced-entries-the-downtown-diaries-jim-carroll-first-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries, 1971-1973 (First Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries, 1971-1973<\/strong>
<\/em>First Edition
By: <\/strong>Jim Carroll
Published: <\/strong>1987
Publisher:<\/strong> Penguin
Format:<\/strong> Paperback
Cover photo:<\/strong> Cindy Lewis
Cover design: <\/strong>Neil Stuart<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forced Entries<\/em> picks up Carroll’s story on his twentieth birthday, just as he is entering New York’s hip art scene. He rubs elbows with dozens of famous poets and artists, is Patti Smith’s beau for a time, works for Andy Warhol and Larry Rivers, and hangs out at Max’s Kansas City, where the Velvet Underground is performing. But all the while, he is leading a double life: still addicted to heroin, Carroll attempts to overcome his past and establish himself as an artist within this society of artists. Yet this quest for authentication combined with his need for drugs eventually threatens to destroy him. While he is frantically trying to keep up with the “scene,” his addiction overtakes him and his writing, and he finds that he has become a stranger to himself. Because of this, Carroll flees to California to successfully conquer his addiction and learn to see again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries, 1971-1973First EditionBy: Jim CarrollPublished: 1987Publisher: PenguinFormat: PaperbackCover photo: Cindy LewisCover design: Neil Stuart Forced Entries picks up Carroll’s story on his twentieth birthday, just as he is entering New York’s hip art scene. 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