by Jack Remick | Dec 20, 2018 | California, Central Valley, Uncategorized, Valley Boy, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques
Fugue in D minor, no score, furious. As she played, Teresa no longer saw notes, the flow of the music came and she did not look at her hands, she never looked at her hands. She did not want the flesh to be in the music but to be the channel that spoke to her and that...
by Jack Remick | Dec 20, 2018 | California, Central Valley, Valley Boy
…Revelations III The doors opened to the sides of the altar and the boy-priests, all younger than Ricky, entered carrying their trays with mounds of white flesh and cups of red blood. Ricky’s stomach ached, seizing, refusing, and each priestly-boy, solemn of...
by Jack Remick | Jun 11, 2015 | California, Central Valley, diaspora, San Francisco, The Book of Changes, The California Quartet, Trio of Lost Souls, Valley Boy
The California Quartet–It’s been a long journey from Coachella to Sacramento. From Eddie in The City to Vincent in the Speaker’s office smoking that cigar; from Ricky’s exodus out of the Valley to Cal to Beast’s blood rituals, it’s...
by Jack Remick | Jul 17, 2013 | Accolades for the Author, California, Central Valley, Jack Remick, New Fiction, Press Release, The Book of Changes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Catherine Treadgold Publisher Coffeetown Press PO Box 70515 Seattle, WA 98127 206-414-7673 Catherine@CoffeetownPress.ComCoffeetownPress.com Coffeetown Announces the October Release of Jack Remick’s Novel about Berkeley in the 70s, The...
by Jack Remick | Jun 15, 2013 | California, Central Valley, New Fiction, San Francisco, Seattle's Literary Community, The Book of Changes
The Book of Changes, the third volume of The California Quartet, is in the chute and should arrive sometime in October, 2013. Here’s what you’ll get: The Book of Changes: (coming in October 2013 from Coffeetown Press.) “Beast” is a pure innocent with one...
by Jack Remick | May 1, 2012 | California, Central Valley, diaspora, New Fiction, Seattle's Literary Community, The Beats, The Deification
Valley Boy, Part of the Okie Chronicle– A Novel by Jack Remick Valley Boy ($13.95, 254 pp, 6×9 Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60381-145-3), by Jack Remick, covers a year in the life of a third-generation Okie teenager who is struggling with the stigma of his...
