The Reed library has discovered a tape of what is surely Ginsberg's first recording of 'Howl' in a box in its special collections room.
Gary Snyder, a Reedie, was a friend of Ginsberg's, and they both read (to very small audiences) on campus on February 13th and 14th, 1956.
A link to the reading will be on Reed's website on Friday, when the online version of Reed magazine appears.
If Eric has a recording of Ginsberg reading a proto-version of 'Howl,' in a friend's Lower East Side walk-up at 2:30 am sometime in 1955, I don't want to hear about it.
http://web.reed.edu/news_center/press_releases/2007-2008/press_release3.html Robert Paul Dean of Armchair Research Mutton College ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
