novella

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Dylan Southern directs from a script based on Max Porter’s novella.

From The Wall Street Journal

Three years later she wrote another novella, “Steffie Speck in the Jaws of Life,” that was made into a 1984 movie, for which she wrote the screenplay.

From New York Times

It isn’t enough for audience members to know the story’s outline in advance, or even to have read the novella.

From New York Times

A short novella on Lucca’s grief and her struggle to understand X would have been just as transfixing — even if, at the end of the book, she had discovered nothing about her.

From Los Angeles Times

When Chastain appeared on Broadway in “The Heiress,” an adaptation of the Henry James novella “Washington Square,” the expectations felt crushing.

From New York Times