Terese Svoboda

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic

Visual corroboration that I have unboxed Hitler and My Mother-in-Law! It still lacks an index, however. The collector's edition.

“It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.”

— Matilda Joslyn Gage, “All The Rights I Want”

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.

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...

reading from Theatrix: Poetry Plays with the incredible John Barton at Russell Books in Victoria tomorrow at 7:30 pm.

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

Opinion | Where There’s No Debate About Genocide — and No Response, Either

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...

my very own niece has published a chapbook!

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...

@literarymama.bsky.social published my aubade in their new issue -- see
literarymama.com/articles/dep...

he thinks they're poisoned

At last, the book. Please come to my chat with the wonderful Helen Benedict on October 8 at 6. The Francis Kite Club.

obviously the republicans set up the murder

somebody doesn't want us to know who the assailant is.

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.

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

‘Despicable relic’: Epstein, Maxwell’s little black book scares off collectors Auction houses, collectors and true-crime experts see a limited market for Jeffrey Epstein’s “creepy” phone book listing names and numbers of the rich and famous.

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...

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. You’ve been there, but not with such generosity of spirit nor such precise sentences...

Have you read Miss Abracadabra by Tom Ross? www.thecommononline.org/magic-senten...

PW starred review of Hitler and My Mother-in-Law coming tomorrow!

this thing in Alaska sure feels like the Munich Pact, when the Czech were given away.

Pre-order Hitler and My Mother-in-Law at orbooks.com/catalog/hitl... and get the scoop on the Whee-lo!

me too.

Late summer visit to travel the Nanaimo Bar Trail tourismnanaimo.com/blog/nanaimo...
Should result in a sugar coma.

kakistocracy means government by incompetent or unscrupulous peole. KAK!

all the sea anemones have vanished under our float home. the sea has warmed. this is not a good thing.

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

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...

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.

the internet promised free access to information and what do we get? paywalls everywhere. information only for the wealthy.

I know that Luther was around long before Jeff Bezos but the resemblance is acute. Where is our Superman?

Blaming Canada for US domestic stupidity and exposing Canada to US bi-polar politics simply will result in US continental isolation.