J.T. Robertson was in plenty of suspense last summer when he submitted his work “The Memory Thieves” for a writing competition. He had no idea if he would master the novella — a form he had never ...

In my previous post, I looked at how the novella was making a comeback amongst authors and how it can help self-publishers raise their profile by publishing shorter works more often. But can the ...

Ottessa Moshfegh plumbs the absurd and the profane for the few moments of clarity one experiences under great duress. Her fiction, with memorably unreliable narrators saddled with unorthodox desires, ...

Two years ago, fantasy author Myke Cole announced The Armored Saint, the first book in a new trilogy that would break pace with his usual work, switching from writing modern, military urban fantasies ...

Some of Stephen King's greatest work comes in novella form, including beloved efforts like The Body and Rita Hayworth and the ...

The characters in “Happy All the Time,” Laurie Colwin’s 1978 novel, spend a surprising amount of time being unhappy. “He had never felt so miserable in his life,” Colwin writes of Vincent Cardworthy ...