Joaquin

by Peter Plate

fiction is a secret code, a message from the unknown. ears need voices. transmission requires reception. our communications are a plasmatic media eroding monolithic silences.

70 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Named a Literary Laureate of San Francisco in 2004, PETER PLATE taught himself to write fiction during eight years spent squatting in abandoned buildings. He is the author of many novels, beginning with Black Wheel of Anger (1990) and continuing through his seven neo-noir "psychic histories" of San Francisco, where he still lives and writes today.