Idra Novey Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Idra Novey is a novelist. Writer and translator. TAKE WHAT YOU NEED out now from @VikingBooks. August in UK @dauntbookspub
La Tercera
Gina ApostolIdra NoveyThere is also a fantastic novelist I’ve been admiring for a long time, Gina Apostol’s new book La Tercera, and that is coming out next month, so that is imminent in the world, and has a fabulous cover, by the way. I think it's a really beautiful design.
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The Book of Goose
Yiyun LiIdra NoveyThe understated poetry in this new novel from Yiyun Li left me a more transparent creature in the strange creek of life. Li’s depiction of rural childhood, of the intensity of girlhood friendships in isolated places, resonated with me deeply.
Paperback, 2023
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Small Rain
Garth GreenwellIdra Noveythe most restorative, intimate, gorgeous exploration of illnesss and recovery I’ve ever read. Months after reading this galley of Small Rain, I continue to open it and revisit astonishing moments in it
Hardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fellowship Point
Alice Elliott DarkIdra NoveyI keep underlining whole passages in this tremendous new novel by @aliceelliottdark which has a writer protagonist and embedded invented books and characters of genuine and evolving complexity.
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Flight
Lynn Steger StrongIdra NoveyThis beautiful and astute new novel from @lynnstegerstrong is coming out soon. It’s wondrous. The writing is spare and subtle and I loved reading it this summer while teaching in Provincetown.
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The House on Via Gemito
Domenico StarnoneIdra Novey…The House on Via Gemito is rewarding on its own terms. Starnone is a writer exquisitely attuned to class anxieties: As his later novels do, Via Gemito explores the emotional cost of class mobility, and the psychic toll of changing one’s… behavior for the sake of…financial gain.
Hardcover, 2023
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Take What You Need
Idra NoveyIdra Novey"Our conversation spanned the continent." Such an honor to speak with @janeciab for this interview about writing, translation, women who weld, and TAKE WHAT YOU NEED. https://t.co/0zVFqvy1E5 via @lithub
Paperback, 2024
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Faraway World: Stories
Patricia EngelIdra NoveyPatricia Engel writes with such understated potency. I’ve read all her novels with deep admiration and each subtle story in this new book risks something unexpected and powerful. The first story La Ruta is haunting. Aida and Fausto, too. Look out for this comet of a collection.
Paperback, 2024
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Late Americans
Brandon TaylorIdra Novey“I was frustrated with these ready-made ideas that so many of my peers had...I remember walking home one day, thinking: ‘It’s like we’re all in a museum exhibit called The Late Americans." Brilliant profile of @blgtylr by @alexneedham74 https://t.co/XpxfAnjcWt
Paperback, 2024
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
After Clarice: Reading Lispector's Legacy in the Twenty-First Century
Adriana X. JacobsIdra NoveyLispector admirers, or those looking for a gift for a devotee of Clarice, this new anthology on her legacy...is revelatory. Elvia Bezerra’s essay on Lispector’s unsettling archive contains all sorts of history and drawings I’ve never seen.
Hardcover, 2022
$115.00$90.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)