Lucy Ives. Song Cave (SPD, dist.), $17.95 trade paper (88p) ISBN 978-0-9967786-3-3
In her newest book of poetry, Ives (The Worldkillers), an editor and writer of many stripes, condenses what she calls “some kind of thinking about writing” into a cerebral collection replete with meditations on the writing process, dialogues...
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Lucy Ives. Penguin Press, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7352-2153-6
Ives’s smart and singular debut novel chronicles what turns out to be a big week in the life of Stella Kraus, a petite and observant map expert for a Manhattan museum resembling the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Over the course of seven days, Stella...
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Lucy Ives. Soft Skull, $16.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-59376-599-6
Ives (Loudermilk) grapples with information overload while exploring her characters’ deeply personal interiority in this inventive collection. Here, Mallarmé meets Craigslist, as a young translator takes a job writing the diaries of erotic online...
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Lucy Ives. Graywolf, $18 trade paper (472p) ISBN 978-1-64445-204-2
Ives (Cosmogeny) offers a discursive and funny Nabokovian story of academic stultification. Erin Adamo is a graduate student in New York City, where a recent scandal involving a relationship between one of her peers and faculty member Roger...
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Lucy Ives. Graywolf, $20 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-64445-311-7
In these meandering essays, novelist Ives (Life Is Everywhere) struggles to locate thematic through lines in her myriad musings. Of the five lengthy pieces, “The Three-Body Problem” is the most successful. In it, Ives recounts the anxiety she felt...
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