Jim Carroll's "Forced Entries" (1987)

New York City: Penguin Books (book), 1987.
7.75" x 5" x 0.375", 184 pages, softcover, ISBN 0-14-008502-5.

Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries: 1971-1973 by Jim Carroll, as published in a softcover edition by Penguin (New York City) in 1987. This is the sequel to Jim Carroll's The Basketball Diaries. Cover Design by Edward O'Dowd. Cover photograph by Gerard Malanga.

The back cover of this edition has a blurb by William S. Burroughs: "Forced Entries captures the early-seventies period in New York better than anything I've read in a long time."

William S. Burroughs is also mentioned in a few pages of this book (at pages 104-107).

This copy – which is a later printing – is signed in marker by Jim Carroll.

Shoaf II.229.

Contents: 

• Author's Note
• "A Birthday"
• "Jenny Ann, Like a Cat"
• "A Day at the Races"
• "The Cancer Hall of Fame"
• "Sunday Morning"
• "Times Square's Cage"
• "The Price You Pay"
• "Invitation to the Dance"
• "A Vicious Nod"
• "The Poet and the Vibrator"
• "On Gloria"
• "The Art of Using"
• "A New Job"
• "Currency"
• "The Cycle"
• "New Accomodations"
• "Transfer–Moving Up, Downtown"
• "Who Will Be Accounted For?
• "Robert Smithson Dows Some Impressive Talking to an Idiot Who Just Trailed a Beam of Light"
• "The Abbey"
• "A Peculiar-Looking Girl"
• "Misdeeds in the Projection Booth"
• "A Situation Worsens"
• "Meeting Andrea"
• "Meeting Andrea Again"
• "Limbo"
• "Ending the Spell"
• "Bird of Prey"
• "Tiny Tortures"
• "Bigger than Most"
• "Dylan and the K.G.B."
• "Central Park, Late Fall"
• "The Bells"
• "Dr. Feelgood"
• "Christmas with D.M.Z."
• "Dumped by Radiance"
• "A Bag of Fruit"
• "The Loft Party"
• "A Suspect Situation"
• "Something Outside"
• "The New Ordeal"
• "Something Worth the Watch"
• "Terror in the Lobby"
• "The Decision to Leave"
• "First Day in California"
• "Restless"
• "The Tail of Two Cities"
• "The Vanishing Nude"
• "Extractions"
• "During the Storm"
• "Low Ebb"
• "Lying with the Dog"
• "Impaired"
• "Getting It All Back"
• "The Babylon Wheel"
• "Matters Literary"
• "Torn Web"
• "Christmas in California"
• "Shadowboxing"
• "A Special Delivery"
• "The Fat Bat"
• "The Last Man on Earth"
  
• "Hello Dali"
• "The Dalai Lama"
• "Rock 'n' Roll"
• "Lost on the Back of My Hand"
• "Opening Night"