Idra Novey Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Idra Novey

Poet and psychoanalyst Nuar Alsadir juxtaposes motherhood with circus arts in this wondrous book on laughter and reframing perceptions of joy ... Her writing creates a light all its own. A must read.

Idra Novey

The 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.

Idra Novey

the 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

Idra Novey

I 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.

Idra Novey

This 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.

Idra 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.

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"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

Idra Novey

Patricia 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.

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“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

Idra Novey

Some short novels cut deeper and stay in the mind far longer than novels with four times as many pages. Kincaid’s Annie John is one of those... I wish I had come across this spare, sly, quietly fearless novel years ago. It’s tremendous.