What to Read When You Want to Disappear
These books speak to that desire in all of us to vanish for a spell.
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Posts Tagged: Ways to Disappear
Next Letter in the Mail: Idra Novey
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from Idra Novey! Idra writes to us in Penn Station, where she’s waiting for an Amtrak train to Philadelphia for a reading, about all the baffling revelations a day of public transportation provides. Subscribe to Letters in the Mail by October 29 to receive Idra’s letter! And […]
...moreHouse on Fire
At the Guardian, Marta Bausells interviews Idra Novey about her life as a translator, the notion of vanishing, and the freedom of speaking another language. On writing her novel, Ways to Disappear, Novey recalls: I wanted to surprise myself and burn down the house of fiction on every page, as much as I could. … I […]
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jensen Beach
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Jensen Beach about his short story collection Swallowed by the Cold, suburbia in Sweden, quiet racism, and writing a series of connected short stories.
...moreWeekend Rumpus Roundup
First, National Poetry Month at The Rumpus continues with Carrie Murphy’s “Beauty Work” and two poems from Amaud Johnson. Next, a harrowing tale of addiction and related heart disease from Paul Vega in the Saturday Essay. Vega’s innovative form helps to create an understated tone in his description of his rehabilitation, and offers an opportunity […]
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Idra Novey
Swati Khurana talks with novelist and translator Idra Novey about the challenges and joys of translation, the idiosyncrasies of language, the inextricable reception of women’s writing and women’s bodies, and much more.
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Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey
Nina Schuyler reviews Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey today in Rumpus Books.
...moreThe Prose and Poetry of Idra Novey
I find the more furtively I move between genres, the more I surprise myself as a writer. Moving between genres, you carry curious things over and also carry them away. I like the gray areas between genres—prose that reads like poetry that moves like a thriller that falls over a reader like poetry—to keep mixing […]
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