The sensational sequel to the bestselling memoir The Basketball
Diaries
During the early 1970s, Jim Carroll was a young and rising star in the
crazy and creative downtown scene in New York City. He worked at the
Factory for Andy Warhol and discussed art, literature, and the cosmos
with Robert Smithson, Allen Ginsberg, and Bob Dylan. He spent nights at
Max's Kansas City, listening to the Velvet Underground. And he did far
too many drugs -- until his survival instinct impelled him to leave New
York for a Northern California retreat.
Intimate and revealing, the episodes in Forced Entries, Carroll's
diaries from that period, provide a sometimes hilarious, sometimes
frightening glimpse of people who tested the limits of life and sanity.
"Forced Entries captures the early-seventies period in New York better
than anything I've read in a long time." -- William S. Burroughs