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The Astonished I (Excerpt)

Published on June 2nd, 2009

Dick McBride reads the first chapter of The Astonished I.

The author recalls a conversation with Jack Kerouac, who had phoned City Lights to talk to Lawrence Ferlinghetti about publishing Visions of Cody.

The cover of The Astonished I (Memories & Wet Dreams) by Dick McBride.
The Astonished I (Memories & Wet Dreams) (McBride's Books, 1995).

The Astonished I (Memories & Wet Dreams) was published by McBride’s Books in 1995 and is a recollection of the author's time in San Francisco. It is dedicated to his friend Tim Prael and contains an introduction by Charles Plymell.

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.

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The Astonished I (Excerpt)