Word: novella
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...that it lacks the fresh air of sport, but that it lacks connections to the real world outside--a tether to reality enjoyed by the monomaniacal students of other things, say, volcanic ash or the mating habits of the tsetse fly. As Stefan Zweig put it in his classic novella The Royal Game, chess is "thought that leads nowhere, mathematics that add up to nothing, art without an end product, architecture without substance...
...dearth of advisors has been felt by applicants such as Jillian E. Gagnon ’06, whose application to write a novella was rejected this year. Gagnon, who has taken two semesters of creative writing, first began formulating the idea for her creative thesis “about a guy in the fifties” last December...
...What emerges over the course of this slim novella is a sort of chamber work on the way women talk to each other and experience their place in the world. Satrapi reflects the way the conversations dovetail with each by having the images do the same. Eschewing panels altogether, most pages contain only two or three images or one full-page image, removing the rigid linearity of a grid layout. Even with the greater amount of space this affords her, Satrapi sticks with the simple illustrative style of her previous works. Clearly something of a "make-do" cartoonist, her artwork...
...Those new to Huizenga would be best served by starting with "Or Else" #2, which contains his most sustained, complex story. A small novella - at 96 half-sized pages - titled "Gloriana," it again weaves different timelines together, along with the fantastic and the ordinary. The girlfriend of "NST '04" has become Glenn's wife, Wendy Caramel-Ganges, and the two are expecting a child. In one witty and surprising sequence Glenn lays his hands on Wendy's belly but he says he can't feel it kick. Magically she transfers the pregnancy to him. "How about now," she asks...
...writing process was made easier by the scores of notes Willig had already taken from primary source diaries of the Napoleonic era—not in Widener, but in high school, when she wrote a historical novella on the emperor’s stepdaughter...