published works

Memory Writers Network interview

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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 out in the world. One source of inspiration came from books like Henry Miller’s sexy novels, Sexus, Nexus, and Plexus. Miller fled the United States to [...]

An excellent blend of travelogue, memoir, and spiritual reading

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5.0 out of 5 stars. From Midwest Book Review. The spice of life awaits anyone who seeks to find it. “San Miguel, De Allende, Mexico: Memoir of a Sensual Quest for Spiritual Healing” is a tale from Rick Skwiot as he reflects on turning his life around during an extended trip to Mexico and learning [...]

Alumnus writes memoir about Mexico

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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 freshman beginning his education at UMSL. His unversity experience challenged and changed him. “Many students were first generation university students like me – ethnic, eager to break [...]

A Non Guide Book about San Miguel

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By Richard Lander in Gangs of San Miguel Blog Not everyone in San Miguel wears rugs.  Not everyone in San Miguel is retired.  Not everyone in San Miguel is happy. This is a book is about an expat who lived in San Miguel,  didn’t wear rugs nor do all the silly things I write about [...]

St. Louis Magazine interviews Rick Skwiot on “San Miguel de Allende, Mexico”

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How Paradise Affects the Memory Frequent SLM contributor Rick Skwiot writes both fiction and nonfiction; what he’s after is truth. In his new memoir— San Miguel de Allende, Mexico: Memoir of a Sensual Quest for Spiritual Healing—it takes experience, memory, and imagination (not to mention women and tequila) to dissolve his North American angst. “Instead [...]

What readers are saying about San Miguel de Allende, Mexico: Memoir of a Sensual Quest for Spiritual Healing

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 “I thoroughly enjoyed every page. The writing is, as expected, exquisite, but there is something new and powerful about this memoir… [It] builds a strong emotional core that pulls you in from start to finish… And then, there are countless characters that just make you laugh out loud… Like the land it depicts, this is [...]

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 [...]

On Writing Christmas at Long Lake

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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 of the Masses, which helped me clarify what I was about in my memoir: depicting the last vestige of a folk culture as mass culture attained supremacy. [...]