For the past few years I've been tracking St. Louis Public Schools issues as I conducted research for and wrote my forthcoming mystery novel, Fail. Today Vashon...
Over the past couple years, while kayaking in the Florida Keys, I've come across three or four crude, makeshift boats washed up at mangrove islands, presumably built...
TRIGGER WARNING: This post contains technical content perhaps of interest only to creative writers and may induce sleep in normal people.
Yesterday, at the Tropic Cinema here in...
British journalist Ben Macintyre’s absorbing new book A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal examines and exposes the human damage done in the real...
Coincidentally and sadly, what's going on these days in Ferguson, Missouri, mirrors some of the events of my forthcoming St. Louis mystery, Fail, including the shooting of an...
(Pub date, Winter, 2014, Blank Slate Press)
Disgraced African American St. Louis Police Lieutenant Carlo Gabriel wants fiercely to return to the headquarters hierarchy from which he has...
Spiritual memoirs, interview with author Rick Skwiot
by Jerry Waxler
During the late 60s, when I was almost finished college, I wondered what life was going to be like...