As the holiday season approaches, those looking for something to cheer them and put them in a nostalgic holiday mood might turn to my critically acclaimed childhood...
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...
From the UMSL Newsroom
By Rose Postma
Today University of Missouri–St. Louis alumnus Rick Skwiot is an award-winning author of several books, but in 1965 he was just a...
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...
From a Sauce Magazine email interview.
Q. What sparked your desire to write this memoir? Was it something you’d been contemplating for quite a while?
A. I think one...