Terese Svoboda on Hitler & My Mother-in-Law, Pt. 1

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Thursday, January 29 at 2:30 PM on KPFK 90.7 FM: My guest this week is Terese Svoboda, author of two dozen books, in addition to short stories, poems, journalism, with work in The Atlantic, Slate, the New Yorker and the Santa Monica Review.  She has won multiple literary prizes, and is a three-time winner of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship.  Svoboda has written for and produced documentary film and wrote the libretto for the opera Wet, which premiered at LA’s Disney Hall. Svoboda’s engagement with so many stories, forms, and genres is both chronicled and exemplified in her latest, Hitler & My Mother-in-Law, gorgeously connected fragments, episodes, anecdotes, scenes and lots and lots of research, assembled ostensibly as an investigation into the life and career of Svoboda’s one-time mother in law,  the trailblazing journalist Patricia Lochridge, whose life is quite impressively unbelievable --- in so many ways --- but the book is also an examination of what and how we believe, and who tells stories anyway, not to mention a memoir of author Terese Svoboda herself.

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