Regionrat is a tale of friendships, relationships, parties, drugs, and death, that takes place in the first three or four months of 1995. There is no more fragile character than Regionrat’s narrator, Raymond Kozlowski: perpetually aware of his own (and his friends’) addictions, constantly convincing himself that he will have to change (only to go back to the same old life of partying in the center of paralysis that is the Region), Kozlowski’s failings (and honesty about his failings), his innate compassion for the suffering, his violence for those who threaten him, and the hindsight dark-humor that—even at its most brutal moments—layers the entire book, and Regionrat is simply a magnificent example of the human heart in conflict with itself and its surroundings.
BIO:
Richard Laskowski was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1975. Regionrat is his first novel. But since there are no guarantees in life it could also be his last. He is still alive. However, if killing him would result in boosted sales of this book we could easily kill him. Who knows, maybe he is dead by now.
In his spare time Richard also moonlights as Six Gallery Press's electronic submissions editor. His novel Regionrat was published by Six Gallery Press in 2003. The film rights were optioned by Amity Pictures of Los Angeles and the project is currently in development and shooting is set to begin in the spring of 2005.