Testimonials for Terese Svoboda

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Trailer Girl

"The kind of satisfaction that one gets from her stories is quick and blinding, governed more by instinct than reason."
-Francie Lin, SF Chronicle

"They (the stories) are compressed like zipped computer files, needing the keys of intensity and attention to unlock them. Svoboda's subject is human suffering, and she bends language to her will in spare and oblique prose."
-Booklist

"A book of genuine grace and beauty."
-Nikki Dillon, NYTBR

"Unnerve thyself: the violent and enthralling short stories in Terese Svoboda's Trailer Girl (Counterpoint) detonate on contact."
-Elissa Schappell, Hot Type, Vanity Fair

Author's Statement

Despite having published three books of poetry (and one of translation), I don't write prose poetry -- that clears the house like shouting experimental film in a movie theater. I just attend to under-used (in fiction) assets of language. Trailer Girl and Other Stories is my third book of prose and it's set in my imaginary Nebraska, my home state where I did not live in a trailer court but did play in a wild place now and then, like most children. Having recently fled Silicon Valley for my preferred wild place, NYC, I'm now finishing another novel and a book of poems.

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Testimonials for Trailer Girl
"The kind of satisfaction that one gets from her stories is quick and blinding, governed more by instinct than reason." -Francie Lin, SF Chronicle
"They (the stories) are compressed like zipped computer files, needing the keys of intensity and attention to unlock them. Svoboda's subject is human suffering, and she bends language to her will in spare and oblique prose." -Booklist
"A book of genuine grace and beauty." -Nikki Dillon, NYTBR
"Unnerve thyself: the violent and enthralling short stories in Terese Svoboda's Trailer Girl (Counterpoint) detonate on contact." -Elissa Schappell, Hot Type, Vanity Fair
Author's Statement Despite having published three books of poetry (and one of translation), I don't write prose poetry -- that clears the house like shouting experimental film in a movie theater. I just attend to under-used (in fiction) assets of language. Trailer Girl and Other Stories is my third book of prose and it's set in my imaginary Nebraska, my home state where I did not live in a trailer court but did play in a wild place now and then, like most children. Having recently fled Silicon Valley for my preferred wild place, NYC, I'm now finishing another novel and a book of poems.