Terese Svoboda
tsvoboda.bsky.social
Terese Svoboda
@tsvoboda.bsky.social
Writer of fiction, memoir, biography, translation and poetry. Husband calls me Spitfire. Oy!
oh boy LITHUB is taking my essay "What Hitler and My Mother-in-Law is Really About!!! I'll have a link soon.
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It's a book about truth! Digging into Hitler and My Mother-in-Law with Allison Tyra @ Infinite Women. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
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://...
creators.spotify.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Read about how truth gets made in families, politics and journalism.
November 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Sing along with Hitler and My Mother-in-Law! largeheartedboy.com/2025/11/06/t...
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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.
November 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM
New Yorkers, vote NO on ballot questions 2-4 otherwise the developers are totally in charge. www.villagepreservation.org/campaign/the...
The 2025 Charter Revision Proposal - Village Preservation
This year’s 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...
www.villagepreservation.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Imagine a siege a year long, and having it end badly. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Grave fears for civilians after Sudanese paramilitary claims capture of El Fasher
RSF says it has seized control of army’s main base in Darfur, home to famine-stricken displacement camp
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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/?
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.
www.optimistdaily.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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.
October 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Now So Closed and Dark (I do life on a houseboat, chasing whales.) bigother.com/2025/10/13/n...
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 thi…
bigother.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
overheard on my NYC street corner, a cop said that they were issuing summons for social media.
October 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
A room without books is like a body without a soul.

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic
October 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Visual corroboration that I have unboxed Hitler and My Mother-in-Law! It still lacks an index, however. The collector's edition.
October 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
“It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.”

— Matilda Joslyn Gage, “All The Rights I Want”
September 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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...
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.
www.semafor.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
reading from Theatrix: Poetry Plays with the incredible John Barton at Russell Books in Victoria tomorrow at 7:30 pm.
September 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reposted by Terese Svoboda
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. 🤬

This is an utter betrayal of Upthegrove's promise to protect our older forests @daveupthegrovecpl.bsky.social

#waleg #Washington
September 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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...
Opinion | Where There’s No Debate About Genocide — and No Response, Either
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
my very own niece has published a chapbook!
September 20, 2025 at 5:48 AM
At last, the book. Please come to my chat with the wonderful Helen Benedict on October 8 at 6. The Francis Kite Club.
September 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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.
September 12, 2025 at 1:23 AM