Idra Novey
Idra Novey is the author of the novel Take What You Need, a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and the poetry collection Soon and Wholly, longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award. She teaches at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Monstrous Hybrids and the Conjuring of Legacy
A visit to a namesake scrapyard changes a novelist's sense of inheritance
Idra Novey
April 5, 2023


