New York has become a cinematic icon often featured in movies, not just a setting but also as a character and subject of the story, like in Nora Ephron’s You’ve Got Mail, Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. New York is practically one of the most culturally distinctive
places in the world that Raia, a writer, chose to flee to this city to chase inspirations after years
of not being able to write even a single sentence, imprisoned by a haunting trauma.
Raia turned every corner of the city into her “office”, walking through the streets of Manhattan,
Brooklyn, to Queens, trying to find a story in each person that she encountered, each smile that she
saw, each conversation that she heard, in the eyes of strangers on the street and in the subway. Days, weeks, and months passed, the fallen leaves of autumn have now been replaced by snowflakes, and all Raia had was a blank screen and misery. Until she met someone who taught her to see the city, and herself, in a way she never knew before
IKA NATASSA is an Indonesian author who is also a banker at the largest bank in Indonesia and the founder of LitBox, the first literary startup of its kind in the country, which combines the concept of mystery box and online promotions for writers.
She loves writing since since was a little kid and finished writing her first novel in English at the age of 19. She is best known for writing a series of popular novels focusing on the lives of young bankers in Indonesia. Her debut novel A Very Yuppy Wedding is published in 2007, and she has released six books since: Divortiare (2008), Underground (2010), Antologi Rasa (2011), Twivortiare (2012), Twivortiare 2 (2014), and Critical Eleven (2015). A Very Yuppy Wedding is the Editor's Choice of Cosmopolitan Indonesia magazine in 2008, and she was also nominated in the Talented Young Writer category in the prestigious Khatulistiwa Literary Award in the same year. She loves to experiment with writing methods, Twivortiare and Twivortiare 2 are the two novels she wrote entirely on Twitter. Antologi Rasa and Twivortiare are currently being adapted into feature films by two of the most prominent production houses in Indonesia.
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