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Bohemian Girl by Terese Svoboda
At the 1893 World’s Fair, Frederick Jackson Turner delivered his now-famous thesis about the closing of the frontier, proposing that, American social development has been continually beginning over again on the frontier. This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its continuous touch with the simplicity of primitive…
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The Long Swim
To call prose cinematic is often to imply that its descriptions are heavily visual, focused on surfaces more than interiorities, and rich with sweeping panoramas, vivid colors, and dramatic action. Not here. While thoroughly cinematic, the forty-four stories in Terese Svoboda’s The Long Swim are shaped by techniques of the editing room more than the…
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Roxy and Coco
Roxy and Coco is a novel about two harpies – nearly immortal winged women – who are employed as social workers but sometimes lose patience and drop abusive parents off cliffs.
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Dog On Fire
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Terese Svoboda writes about Dog On Fire from University of Nebraska Press. + Looking Under the Rug: An Essay on Researching Dog on Fire My new novel Dog on Fire is…
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Recommended Reading 2020
Some of our editors share a few books read in 2020 that we’re still thinking about at the end of the year. + Diane Josefowicz, book reviews editor This year I gravitated toward books that gave shape to my dismay at our national shrug in the face of a grave and immediate existential threat. In…