Ask the Author: Terese Svoboda
“Dog on Fire was inspired by my brother's mysterious death in the 90s. Four months after the book was published, I found out why it was so mysterious.”
Terese Svoboda
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from my epileptic brother's mysterious death.
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I'm rarely inspired. I just write.
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two novels, one about a harem in Libya and the other about a fairytale goose and climate change.
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Grace Paley told me: low rent.
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The process of revision. Seeing change, if not improvement. The story of surprise, the forgiveness of a phrase.
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I never have it. Writing is like breathing for me. I accept whatever appears because I know I can revise.
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Ernest Hemmingway's baby shoes screwed onto his corpse. (that's one sentence!)
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Pukapuka, the furthest flung Polynesian island occupied by 100 people who have elected one person to decide on what TV station to watch. I want to see what they choose.
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Latasha Nevada Digg's Village, Optic Subwoof by Doug Kearney, Molly Giles' Home for Unwed Husbands, and Fat Time by Jeffrey Renard Allen
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Where did Uncle Edward put the will? $69M went to a lawyer who headed a foundation for crippled race horses.
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