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Feature Articles

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Selection of feature articles by Rick Skwiot “Paradise Sought,” Washington magazine. “Instrumental to the Music Industry,” Washington magazine. “Pride Goeth after the Fall,” St. Louis Magazine. “A Writer’s Life: Real but Unlikely,” Washington magazine. “How to Protect Yourself from Hearing Loss,” St. Louis Magazine. “Food for Thought,” St. Louis Magazine. “Stemming Health-Care Fraud,”Washington University Magazine. [...]

Unsolicited Reader Comments on Christmas at Long Lake

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  “I have enjoyed Christmas at Long Lake hugely…It is beautiful and cleanly written, and I admire it not only for its use of language but as well fro the ways in which, within the framework of the narration of events of a couple of days, it works outward to create a larger thematic universe [...]

Critical Praise for Christmas at Long Lake: A Childhood Memory

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  “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 physical and emotional landscape of this environment are poignant, entertaining, and instructional…There is magic in this depiction of a setting and a way of life that [...]

Blood Simple

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A St. Louis novelist reflects on ancestry, race, DNA testing and hyphenation From St. Louis Magazine July 2008 When I was a child, we lived on a lake in rural Illinois outside Granite City, where my father worked at a steel mill. But on weekends he was outdoors. In winter, ice skating on the frozen [...]