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 21, 2018 | Interviews and Readings, Valley Boy, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques, Writing Theory
https://www.writermag.com Coming out in August, should be available at B&N in July Writing autobiographical fiction Some challenges “We’re in a theory-saturated era—call it trickle down post-modernism—where the borders of fact and fiction are widely debated,” says...
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...
