Svoboda's Roxy and Coco/Long Swim talk with Silber and Hagood

On February 29, P&T Knitwear's Leap Day Special will feature Terese Svoboda (SOA '78) talking with Joan Silber and Caroline Hagood about the excitement of double publication, harpies, child abuse, extinction, 101-year-old patriarchs and inappropriate humor. Svoboda's seventh novel, Roxy and Coco, is a novel about harpies who wear heels and drink wine with a  mission to stop child abuse based on Greek myth. She's also celebrating the publication of her third story collection, The Long Swim, which won the Juniper Prize from the U. of Massachusetts. Svoboda has published six books in four genres in the last six years. Hitler and My Mother-in-Law, her second memoir, will appear next year. Joan Silber is the author of nine books of fiction. Her Improvement won the NBCC Award in Fiction and both the PEN/Faulkner and PEN/Malamud Awards. Caroline Hagood's most recent books are her collection of essays, Weird Girls: Writing the Art Monster (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022), and her forthcoming speculative memoir, Goblin Mode, (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2025).