Word: novella
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...collection's best charting of vacant depths, perhaps, is a novella called Pat Collins. Like the author's brief, bitter novel. Appointment in Samarra, it follows the decline and fall of a Gibbsville auto dealer. Some readers may find it better than Samarra, and that is saying a lot. In fact, if John O'Hara were not so good at writing prefaces, it might be hoped that he would continue to devote himself to short stories...
...irony, hobbled by a pedagogue's inability to face life except in terms of art, Soby nevertheless fancies himself a secret worshiper of the wisdom of the body-for him symbolized by the bacchic visions that lured Gustav Aschenbach, the aging hero of Thomas Mann's famous novella, Death in Venice, to a debasing but idyllic passion for a beautiful young...
...plans to devote herself to poetry for a while and will not write any more prose for at least a year. She will be at Wellesley for the first semester of the coming year and will teach two courses in creative writing, one in poetry and one in the novella. After that she will go to her home in New Hampshire "for five or six months of just plain writing and thinking...
...written, under her own name and pseudonyms, at least 100 books Edmund Wilson has never heard of. Editors loved her because she was dependable and fast. Once, with no perceptible quickening in pace, she clicked off a 12,000-word novella during a four-day coast-to-coast train ride. ''Sometimes," she admits, "the stories didn't come out very dimensional...
Flying Actors. Hitchcock's fantasy-loosely based on a chilling novella by Daphne du Maurier-promises to be up to his exacting standards of blood and gore, and to accomplish its frightening turns he has plunged his own "teevee money" into the elaborately detailed production. He had 700 birds trapped and trained, and spent meticulous hours coaxing them to become flying actors...