Idra Novey

Oct 22, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Idra Novey |Lan Samantha Chang |Goldie Goldbloom |Ron Nyren

Reading Lists These foreboding short stories and novels are filled with suspense and dread When the ominous appears in fiction, it increases anticipation and deepens empathy. As readers watch a character struggle with a feeling of unease caused by people or events, it offers them the pleasure of intimacy. Like the character, they have, in their own lives, questioned if something that urges wariness is real or imagined. As the matter is resolved for the character, the reader will feel...

Oct 15, 2024 | poets.org | Idra Novey |Patricia Smith |Fanny Howe |Maggie Smith

Find and share the perfect poems. Under the marked-down dresses, we conjured trips to Oslo. Also to Lima. Mel says the game was my idea, hidingbehind hundreds of hems, inventing trips to cities we knewonly as pleasing arrangements of letters, places we’d likelynever see. Mel says it’s how she remembers me: cross-legged, knottinglengths of licorice, traveling the planet under racks of final sales.

May 6, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Guadalupe Nettel |Rosalind Harvey |Idra Novey |Claire Bennett

Reading Lists Amy Key recommends books from across the world about solitude and its pleasures, desires and conflicts I thought it would be easy to compile a list of books where women live alone. And it was, but what is considerably less easy it to think about books where women live alone and don’t fall into, or emerge from, a completely deranged state. I asked friends, and one replied, “the first thing that came to mind was Marian Engel’s Bear, then I remembered she has sex with a bear.” We...

May 6, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Amy Key |Guadalupe Nettel |Rosalind Harvey |Idra Novey |Claire Bennett

Reading Lists Amy Key recommends books from across the world about solitude and its pleasures, desires and conflicts I thought it would be easy to compile a list of books where women live alone. And it was, but what is considerably less easy it to think about books where women live alone and don’t fall into, or emerge from, a completely deranged state. I asked friends, and one replied, “the first thing that came to mind was Marian Engel’s Bear, then I remembered she has sex with a bear.” We...

Apr 20, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Flávia Rocha |Idra Novey |Rowan Ricardo Phillips |Melcion Mateu

Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global literary conversation. Founded in 2003, WWB seeks to expand cultural understanding by giving readers unparalleled access to contemporary world literature in English translation while providing a vital platform for today’s international writers. Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global literary conversation.