by Jack Remick | Aug 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Review of “What Do I Know?: Wisdom Essays” Sidekick Press Nature abhors a vacuum. So too the human mind. And what better goal for the mind than to seek wisdom, the state of being wise. “That is having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or...
by Jack Remick | Aug 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
by Jack Remick © 2021 Why is it difficult for us, in this century, to write about the Trojan War in other than historical terms? Why can’t we get into the American Civil War except as anecdote or history? It is, I think,...
by Jack Remick | Jun 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
How did you get started on your writing journey, and how long did it take until you were published? A: We all stand on the shoulders of giants. As a writer, I have to acknowledge that some pretty good guys ran a lot of ink onto paper before I came along. Poetry...
by Jack Remick | Jun 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Interview after publication of The Book of Changes, Book Three of The California Quartet, from Coffeetown Press, Catherine Treadgold, Editor Reading and Writing Addiction Interview Questions When did you first discover that you were a writer? I came to the art very...
by Jack Remick | May 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Wisdom Essays– Sidekick Press published these essays on August 10th.. Hardback and paper. Cover image © 2021 by Meredith Bricken Mills from Robert J. Ray’s blurb for the book: Remick is a teacher. “How do you tell the young to step here if there is...
by Jack Remick | Aug 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
5.0 out of 5 stars Maxine is Kali: destroyer and creator of worlds I read Maxine slowly because I like to sit and dream with characters a while. I find the author’s language, dialogue, and plot effective and compelling. I am a poet and I doff my poet hat to Remick....
by Jack Remick | Jun 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
From Maxine: I hesitate. I’m in that place when you really want something, but you’re edgy about taking it because the offer might be a trap and when it springs, you’re lost, legs broken, neck snapped, fingers crushed, chest caved in, skull shattered but you’re...
by Jack Remick | Feb 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
a review of Citadel by Susan Kemp SusanWKemp5.0 out of 5 stars Hard-hitting book by a good writer I’m giving this book such a high mark for three reasons. First, its sheer audacity. It really doesn’t hold back. Each chapter holds a new and horrifying view of our world...
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...
