I have uploaded a recording of Dick reading the first chapter of
The Astonished I (Memories & Wet Dreams).
The author recalls a conversation he had with Jack Kerouac, who had phoned City Lights to talk to Lawrence Ferlinghetti about publishing Visions of Cody.
A slightly different version of the first chapter was originally published in Transit and then The Beat Journals, both published by Kevin Ring’s
Beat Scene Press.
Recorded by L. Dow & J. Redman at St Ann's Well Cafe, Great Malvern (Sept 10th 2004)
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here to listen via Myspace.