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El Floridita and Sloppy Joe’s, tourist destinations made famous by American novelist Ernest Hemingway, sat dark and shuttered.
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Romina Ruiz-Goiriena,
USA Today,
6 July 2026
The novelist Catherine Lacey praised this book in a Substack letter just today.
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Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
2 July 2026
Idra Novey is a poet, novelist, and translator who grew up in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a former steel town in the Allegheny Highlands of Appalachia.
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Idra Novey,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 July 2026
That was the term widely used against social critics, artists, novelists—anyone in Austria who dared to be too critical of the country after the Second World War.
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William Finnegan,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
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Romina Ruiz-Goiriena,
USA Today,
6 July 2026
The novelist Catherine Lacey praised this book in a Substack letter just today.
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Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
2 July 2026
Idra Novey is a poet, novelist, and translator who grew up in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a former steel town in the Allegheny Highlands of Appalachia.
—
Idra Novey,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 July 2026
That was the term widely used against social critics, artists, novelists—anyone in Austria who dared to be too critical of the country after the Second World War.
—
William Finnegan,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/novelist. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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novelist
noun
nov·el·ist
ˈnäv-(ə-)ləst 
: a writer of novels
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