Category: Novellas in November

Novellas in November 2021

Three Contemporary Novellas: Moss, Brown and Gaitskill

Classic Novellas Week Buddy Read: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton #NovNov

Classic Novellas Week: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James #NovNov

What can I say about The Turn of the Screw that hasn’t already been said and written? I know there are countless papers, essays even PHDs exploring this slim book, which is the most inconclusive of ghost stories. In Henry James novella, an unnamed narrator is engaged as governess to two angelic children at Bly, a remote English…

Classic Novellas Week: Catholics by Brian Moore #NovNov #brianmoore100

Two reads for Translation Week: Redonnet and Zweig #NovNov #germanlitmonth

For Translation Week: An interview with Stella Sabin of Peirene Press #NovNov

Translation Week Buddy Read: Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine Harcourt #NovNov

Translation Week: Winter Flowers by Angélique Villeneuve, translated by Adriana Hunter #NovNov

Translation Week: Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder #NovNov

Hotel Iris is the story of Mari, a 17-year-old woman who works for her tyrannical mother in a run down hotel by the sea. She meets an older man, a translator of Russian novels, who lives on an island and is rumoured to have murdered his wife. They start a relationship based on dominance and…