Richard,
Utne Indie Culture 2004 seems to be a one shot put out by the
Utne Reader, which is kind of a leftist Readers Digest,
drawing together articles from numerous alternative
presses.
And for the record, they were not discussing mysteries, but
Lit-ra-chuh. Since it's short, I figured I'd type out the
whole thing:
Literary Genres Overrated: The short story Underrated: The
novella
Even at its best, there's something breathless about the
prestigious short story form -- we're dropped into a
ficitional world just long enough to prepare us for the Big
Moment -- the betrayal, the death, the epiphany -- then
goodbye. The novella takes a small-scale, short-story
situation and gives us more: more about the characters, more
atmosphere, more breathing room. Great novellas like Kafka's
Metamorphosis, Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilych and Saul
Bellow's Seize the Day feel like fully deeloped novels, even
though they may only depict a single day -- or a single
moment. The novella form, invented in Germany two hundred
year ago, thrives today in the hands of everybody from
American novelist Charles Baxter to Japanese hipster Banana
Yoshimoto. -- Jon Spayde
Mark
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