About
Steve Sklar — Writer?
(Not putting the rest of this page in the third person. Steve this, Steve that. Not gonna do that.)
I’ve been doing what I guess you could call creative writing on and off at least since I was in my twenties. Got some stuff published — several pieces on skiing in Powder Magazine in the late 70s/early 80s, several film biz articles in Variety ten years later, then more recently a couple of essays in The Threepenny Review. But I never quite committed to writing as my main gig.
There was a moment in my youth when I took a little time to see if I might be … A Writer. I was, as they say, between jobs, possibly even collecting unemployment. I went out and bought me a big, used, but really quite nice, oak table to use as a desk. Wheeled it home on a dolly about half a mile from the place where I’d picked it up to the Brooklyn apartment I shared with roommates. Because if you’re going to be A Writer you need a proper writing surface. Nice writing table, ample time to write. And I noticed that, mostly, I didn’t write. Oh well.
And so there’ve been the day jobs. For a while, film and video crew member — video editor, video special effects animator, production assistant on a couple of features, each feature well worth missing. And then, for the past 31 years, immigration lawyer.
But here’s the thing. At a low frequency over the years since that oak table and I went our separate ways I have continued writing. Lately I feel more like a writer than ever, if not A Writer committed to supporting himself, let alone his family, that way. But still, writing.
In any event, here come these pieces. Enjoy.
The Ride To Redacted (Steve’s podcast with Malkah Liora Pusin Sklar)