“I’m just a random white gal raised upper-middle class. But to think that I am disconnected only allows for the continuation of a system that benefits from my ignorance.”

executive

decisions

needs dying

in congress

A conversation with Terese Svoboda about her latest book, Hitler and My Mother in Law, and how writing through uncertainty and using humor to face the unbearable truths history leaves behind.

But something is wrong with these coots. Why are they moving so strangely?

Obviously, she says, I can’t come to the hill anymore. Don’t make that face! I’m not welcome anymore.

Everybody gets old, Grandma always says. Everybody withers.