Impressive offerings from Lynn Coady, Douglas Glover, Shaena Lambert and, south of the border, George Saunders, Russell Banks, and Karen Russell—to say nothing of Alice Munro’s Nobel—have led some to declare 2013 The Year of the Short Story. And if that’s the case, can The Year of the Novella—that awkward, gangly-limbed middle child—really be far behind? Read more…
Novella
THE COUSIN
by John Calabro
A PLEASANT VERTIGO
by Egidio Coccimiglio
HARBOUR VIEW
by Binnie Brennan
It’s a debate that rages on: is the novella a genre with distinct characteristics or simply an idiosyncratic, underutilized length? Is it a short story grown too big for its britches, or a novel run out of steam? Or is it a form whose time – in this impatient age – has finally arrived? Read more…