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Jerry Jaz
On the way to publishing his memoir trilogy, Jerry reads his notebooks into the computer for editing. You may peek in on the process by listening to the read.
The notebooks were written over a period of 40 years.
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No Place to Grow Up
Jerry living on his own
My Story Begins
My story begins when I am 6 years old, kidnapped by a man in his early 20’s, raped, and left in a grassy field high above Sausalito’s houseboats and fading beat culture.
My story ends when I manufacture 1 pint of nitro glycerin in my 6th grade chemistry class. The NY bomb squad responds and remove my brew. I am expelled from this Long Island school for the gifted.
My story begins at 15 when I buy my first pea coat at a second hand clothes store in San Francisco.
My story ends when I am rescued from a cliff 250 above the crashing Pacific surf and am arrested for trespassing inside a Nike missile base.
My Unpublished Books
We Used to be Kings
Raised to rule the world
Songs I Learned in Prison
Eleven years unlearning how to be me
The Quiet Guy Next Door
Building the life I imagine for myself
Upcoming Readings
Weekly
Life read out loud and out of order.
Belvedere Lagoon, Hollywood, Cove Neck, Oyster Bay, Portland, Tiburon, Sausalito, and points between.
Live Reading
They won’t type themselves up, the words I’ve handwritten over the past 40+ years.
So I’ll read them into my computer for a fairly accurate transcription. Then I will edit them into the chronicles of growing up smart, white, and stupid.
“Publish your story already, Jerry, I’m 74 fucking years old, and I won’t live forever.”
-Jack Remick
“Gerald has been awarded Best Column in a Daily Newspaper. The following year his column placed 2nd for Freedom of the Press.”
-Nevada State Press Association
Jerry Jaz
My story begins when a young creative writing HS teacher comments favorably on a series of short stories I submit instead of a term paper.