On Writing Christmas at Long Lake: A Childhood Memory
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While writing Christmas at Long Lake I re-read José Ortega Y Gasset’s The Revolt...
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FAIL – A Mystery By Rick Skwiot
Blog, Published Works(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...
Alumnus writes memoir about Mexico
Author InterviewsFrom 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...
Unsolicited Reader Comments on Christmas at Long Lake
Christmas at Long Lake, Reviews-Comments“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...
Critical Praise for Christmas at Long Lake: A Childhood Memory
Christmas at Long Lake, Reviews-Comments
“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...
Killing Mother
Blog, FeaturesBy Rick Skwiot
(First published in PortFolio Weekly as "The Crossing.")
The call I'd been waiting for came in the middle of the night, waking me from a dead...
Christmas at Long Lake Q&A
Author InterviewsFrom 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...