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...
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...
