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 | 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 | Oct 27, 2011 | New Fiction, North Beach, poetics of prose, San Francisco, Seattle's Literary Community, The Beats, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques
I grew up in California’s Central Valley. The Valley was huge but stifling. If you climbed the town water tower one foggy night and the cops hauled you down, it made the local newspaper–“Boys Saved From Fall and Likely Death”. Your one goal was a...
