The Gift
He had just started across the zócalo, moving under the elms with white-painted trunks, where boat-tailed grackles were screeching noisily and settling in for the night,...
Romanian-born novelist Gabriela Popa (author of Kafka’s House) recently interviewed Rick about his new memoir and his work. Following are excerpts from that interview.
GABRIELA POPA: What can...
By Rick Skwiot
Excerpted from
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico:
Memoir of a Sensual Quest for Spiritual Healing
Contact: publisher@antaeusbooks.com
De Efe Mexicans call it, D.F., El Distrito Federal, or simply...
By Rick Skwiot
(First published in PortFolio Weekly)
My first mistake, fueled by youthful enthusiasm, was sprinting up the stadium steps with another lineman on my back. Conditioning, we...
By Rick Skwiot
(Published in PortFolio Weekly)
KEY WEST – One popular Key West bumper sticker, usually seen on rusty pick-ups with Monroe County, Florida, plates, reads, "If it's...
What Rick has to say about writing Christmas at Long Lake: A Childhood Memory
While writing Christmas at Long Lake I re-read José Ortega Y Gasset’s The Revolt...
“Rick Skwiot works his own magic...As usual, Skwiot's writing is sure...And his tale has a gritty, blue-collar cachet...This is good reading.”—Kansas City Star
“Skwiot's vivid descriptions of the...
By Rick Skwiot
(Published in PortFolio Weekly)
If you want to get an idea what this land looked like before English ships arrived, go to Assateague Island—though you won't...