This week marks the launch by Blank Slate Press of my new St. Louis-based mystery Fail, whose events coincidentally mirror those taking place there recently--the shooting of...
(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...
(The scene: Havana. The time: today. The characters: blocked and destitute Key West writer Con Martens; a young Ernest Hemingway, a.k.a. Nick Adams, sent from Writers Heaven...
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...
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...
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,...