Terese Svoboda
@tsvoboda.bsky.social
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Writer of fiction, memoir, biography, translation and poetry. Husband calls me Spitfire. Oy!
Hitler and My Mother-in-Law makes a December read.
www.insidehook.com/books/books-...
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The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This December
Body modification, annotated lyrics and more to close out 2025
https://www.insidehook.com/books/books-read-month-december-2025
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Angelenos! I'm reading/powerpoint, singing and dancing at Book Soup January 15 at 7 PLUS a complete cross-examination by the illustrious Jim Ruland, punk historian and novelist extraordinaire. Be there and square. PLUS Today it's finally published!!! Three pub dates later.
9 days ago
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I don't know about "helping."
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AIâs safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds
Poems containing prompts for harmful content prove effective at duping large language models
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/30/ai-poetry-safety-features-jailbreak
10 days ago
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A whole chapter of Hitler and My Mother-in-Law at Evergreen Review
@evergreenreview.bsky.social
. Order the rest of the book or ebook
@ORbooks.bsky.social
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Witch Hunts
Evergreen Review
https://evergreenreview.com/read/witch-hunts/
12 days ago
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oh boy LITHUB is taking my essay "What Hitler and My Mother-in-Law is Really About!!! I'll have a link soon.
16 days ago
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It's a book about truth! Digging into Hitler and My Mother-in-Law with Allison Tyra @ Infinite Women.
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Terese Svoboda on Patricia Hartwell and mothers-in-law by Infinite Women
Terese Svoboda, author of the new book Hitler and My Mother-in-Law, shares the story of groundbreaking reporter, arts advocate and Svoboda's own mother-in-law, Patricia Hartwell.Get the book: https://...
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/infinite-women/episodes/Terese-Svoboda-on-Patricia-Hartwell-and-mothers-in-law-e3an41l
17 days ago
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Read about how truth gets made in families, politics and journalism.
19 days ago
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Sudan's is not a forgotten war; it's aided and abetted.
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Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about whatâs going on | Nesrine Malik
The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/03/blood-spilled-sudan-el-fasher-space-rsf-uae-darfur
about 1 month ago
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RSF burning the bodies so no one will know how many killed in the siege.
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Satellite images appear to show attempts to dispose of bodies after RSF seized Sudan's el-Fasher
Satellite images analyzed on Friday appear to indicate renewed attempts by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces to dispose of bodies following their seizure and rampage through the city of el-Fasher ...
https://apnews.com/article/sudan-rsf-drone-strikes-e1f5a14c8cfdf0efab2c295a81a5a7b6?cdmc=35AszknWrAFZdM4qLzpTlUU8JgM&refcode2=35AszknWrAFZdM4qLzpTlUU8JgM&refcodecdmc=35AszknWrAFZdM4qLzpTlUU8JgM
about 1 month ago
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Thumbs up from Epiphany's Christa Lei
@orbooks.bsky.social
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Memoir, Reinvented: The Pursuit of Truth with Terese Svoboda - Interviewed by Christa Lei â Epiphany Magazine
A conversation with Terese Svoboda about her latest book, writing through uncertainty, and using humor to face the unbearable truths that history leaves behind.
https://epiphanyzine.com/features/terese-svoboda-interview
about 1 month ago
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Sing along with Hitler and My Mother-in-Law!
largeheartedboy.com/2025/11/06/t...
about 1 month ago
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Hitler and My Mother-in-Law tomorrow at Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport, 3pm. Pat Lochridge was the first woman at CBS news in 1939. Today CBS fired 8 on-air women. Too woke.
about 1 month ago
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New Yorkers, vote NO on ballot questions 2-4 otherwise the developers are totally in charge.
www.villagepreservation.org/campaign/the...
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The 2025 Charter Revision Proposal - Village Preservation
This yearâs election includes several proposals to revise the New York City Charter. Village Preservation is recommending you VOTE NO on Ballot Questions 2-4. In addition to the opportunity to vote fo...
https://www.villagepreservation.org/campaign/the-2025-charter-revision-proposal/
about 1 month ago
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Imagine a siege a year long, and having it end badly.
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Grave fears for civilians after Sudanese paramilitary claims capture of El Fasher
RSF says it has seized control of armyâs main base in Darfur, home to famine-stricken displacement camp
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/27/fears-civilians-sudan-paramilitary-rsf-capture-el-fasher
about 1 month ago
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Ireland's providing basic income for artists. It's good for the economy. bhttps://www.optimistdaily.com/2025/10/ireland-makes-basic-income-for-artists-permanent-signaling-support-for-creative-economy/?
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Ireland makes basic income for artists permanent, signaling support for creative economy | The Optimist Daily
After a successful pilot, Ireland will permanently offer basic income to artists starting in 2026, boosting cultural output and economic stability.
https://www.optimistdaily.com/2025/10/ireland-makes-basic-income-for-artists-permanent-signaling-support-for-creative-economy/?cdmc=34TAL2lWnWZarLbVOmLQwn6ehk1&refcode2=34TAL2lWnWZarLbVOmLQwn6ehk1&refcodecdmc=34TAL2lWnWZarLbVOmLQwn6ehk1
about 2 months ago
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Hitler and My Mother-in-Law at P&T Knitwear 6:30 on Wednesday!!! Please register at
www.ptknitwear.com/events
I'm doing a powerpoint, a wee reading, and a conversation. My singing and dancing are limited.
about 2 months ago
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Now So Closed and Dark (I do life on a houseboat, chasing whales.)
bigother.com/2025/10/13/n...
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Now So Closed and Dark, by Terese Svoboda
We wharfies spend ourselves on sandwiches slick with mayo and chips as tough as baleen, a scrap of which hangs over the bow? stern? of the craft. Craft is what you call a whale boat like thiâŠ
https://bigother.com/2025/10/13/now-so-closed-and-dark-by-terese-svoboda/
about 2 months ago
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overheard on my NYC street corner, a cop said that they were issuing summons for social media.
2 months ago
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A room without books is like a body without a soul. â Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic
2 months ago
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Visual corroboration that I have unboxed Hitler and My Mother-in-Law! It still lacks an index, however. The collector's edition.
2 months ago
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âIt is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.â ââMatilda Joslyn Gage, âAll The Rights I Wantâ
3 months ago
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Tens of thousands, think of that-- tens of thousands of Sudanese with cholera and dengue fever. No cure for dengue fever. Consider a fever for the rest of your life. Caused by war.
www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Diseases ravage war-torn Sudan as conflict rages on
Tens of thousands of people have fallen ill with dengue, cholera, and other diseases after recent rains, compounding a series of crises in the country.
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/26/2025/diseases-ravage-war-torn-sudan-as-conflict-rages-on?cdmc=33EwB7MtHJ6XFoL5tjI7ZdRSvUL&refcode2=33EwB7MtHJ6XFoL5tjI7ZdRSvUL&refcodecdmc=33EwB7MtHJ6XFoL5tjI7ZdRSvUL
3 months ago
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reading from Theatrix: Poetry Plays with the incredible John Barton at Russell Books in Victoria tomorrow at 7:30 pm.
3 months ago
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reposted by
Terese Svoboda
Andy Zahn
3 months ago
These are all the forests which
@wadnr.bsky.social
is planning to clearcut between now and next June, many of which are previously paused legacy forest sales. đ€Ź This is an utter betrayal of Upthegrove's promise to protect our older forests
@daveupthegrovecpl.bsky.social
#waleg
#Washington
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An acknowledged genocide in Sudan, 400,000 murdered, yet no one does anything. We can air drop food, we can embargo.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
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Opinion | Where Thereâs No Debate About Genocide â and No Response, Either
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/opinion/sudan-genocide-famine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.k08.uN4v.JhUzICFa17jk&smid=url-share
3 months ago
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my very own niece has published a chapbook!
3 months ago
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@literarymama.bsky.social
published my aubade in their new issue -- see
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Aubade for the (Already!) Man
Oh, the weeping motherwho does not dare. The plane could fall.The beer in his bag explode and set off a chain reaction with his phonehooking up to radioactivity in the cloud. A girl could prick at th...
https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2025/09/aubade-for-the-already-man
3 months ago
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At last, the book. Please come to my chat with the wonderful Helen Benedict on October 8 at 6. The Francis Kite Club.
3 months ago
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seems to me, like T's attempted assassination, this one's fake too -- that is to say, it was put together by the Republicans. They doth protest too much. They're jonesing for a Reichstag. Odd they can't find the assailant.
3 months ago
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Kapow! One Story's lecture series: Physical Contact with Terese Svoboda! OK, OK -- it's about fight scenes. Harder the write than a sex scene. September 13, 4pm EST
tinyurl.com/mnhn6k9x
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2025 Lecture Series â One Story
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4 months ago
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reposted by
Terese Svoboda
Karen Glykys
4 months ago
The little black book exists. The full version was copied to 5 people by Maxwell who bragged that if she ended up dead in prison they were to publish it. I had to Google back to 2022.
nypost.com/2022/01/01/e...
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âDespicable relicâ: Epstein, Maxwellâs little black book scares off collectors
Auction houses, collectors and true-crime experts see a limited market for Jeffrey Epsteinâs âcreepyâ phone book listing names and numbers of the rich and famous.
https://nypost.com/2022/01/01/epstein-maxwells-little-black-book-scares-off-collectors/
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Have you read Miss Abracadabra by Tom Ross?
www.thecommononline.org/magic-senten...
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Magic Sentences: A Review of Miss Abracadabra
TERESE SVOBODA <br>This is the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York during the pre-Civil Rights era, the sticks. Youâve been there, but not with such generosity of spirit nor such precise sentences...
https://www.thecommononline.org/magic-sentences-a-review-of-miss-abracadabra/
4 months ago
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PW starred review of Hitler and My Mother-in-Law coming tomorrow!
4 months ago
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this thing in Alaska sure feels like the Munich Pact, when the Czech were given away.
4 months ago
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Pre-order Hitler and My Mother-in-Law at
orbooks.com/catalog/hitl...
and get the scoop on the Whee-lo!
4 months ago
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Late summer visit to travel the Nanaimo Bar Trail
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Should result in a sugar coma.
4 months ago
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kakistocracy means government by incompetent or unscrupulous peole. KAK!
4 months ago
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all the sea anemones have vanished under our float home. the sea has warmed. this is not a good thing.
4 months ago
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OMG Thomas Sayers Ellis died. He was a tremendously gifted artist, both in photography and poetry, and founded the Dark Room that supported so many brilliant writers.
#blackwriters
#poets
4 months ago
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I know, competing with a tsunami. Here's a photo from Hitler and My Mother-in-Law where I've mistaken a spear for a paddle and someone's turned away, laughing. Pre-order for 15% off at
orbooks.com/catalog/hitl...
4 months ago
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OR Books just changed the pub date to October 21, but I'm doing readings before that -- and anyone who pre-orders gets the book in September! I'm braced for a tsunami of curiosity, if only because BC was poised to get a real one tonight. Instead we have a beautiful sunset.
4 months ago
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the internet promised free access to information and what do we get? paywalls everywhere. information only for the wealthy.
5 months ago
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I know that Luther was around long before Jeff Bezos but the resemblance is acute. Where is our Superman?
5 months ago
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Blaming Canada for US domestic stupidity and exposing Canada to US bi-polar politics simply will result in US continental isolation.
5 months ago
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In 1939 a Swedish legislator nominated Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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To travel to South Sudan, U.S. State Department advises that those who choose to go to South Sudan to draft a will, establish a proof of life protocol with family members, and leave DNA samples with oneâs medical provider. 8 immigrants deported there after the judge forbade it.
tinyurl.com/yu4z6x95
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ICE Said They Were Being Flown to Louisiana. Their Flight Landed in Africa.
An investigation by The Intercept reveals that ICE officials deceived eight men now expelled to South Sudan.
https://tinyurl.com/yu4z6x95
5 months ago
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"The Curious Case o f My Mother-in-Law's Polio" in Slate
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Pre-order Hitler and My Mother-in-Law
tinyurl.com/43hyh2cb
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Hitler and My Mother-In-Law
Check out Hitler and My Mother-In-Law - <p><strong><em>Hitler and My Mother</em>-in-Law is a riveting memoir that explores the intersection of truth--both familial and political--through the colorful ...
https://tinyurl.com/43hyh2cb
5 months ago
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Today Social Security said the Beautiful Bill means we don't have to pay taxes on our checks. I imagine that sop will disappear after the midterms -- if there are midterms -- and they'll hoover up everything.
5 months ago
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I'm publishing Hitler and My Mother-in-Law in October with
@orbooks.bsky.social
⏠âpolitically progressive and culturally adventurous!" The memoir's a wild ride from Berchtesgaden to South Sudan -- and lots of jokes. Pre-order @ Bookshop
tinyurl.com/yc6hn2wx
My 1st won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize.
6 months ago
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Munchshausen and Stockholm Syndrome at work.
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