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Is there a more misunderstood or neglected literary form than the novella? Even more than poetry or short fiction, the novella tends to get overlooked by readers and publishers alike, neither seeming to know quite what to do with a liminal form that is too long for a story and too short for a conventional novel. Even the dividing line between the story and the novella seems porous: where does the former end and the latter begin? Is the demarcation 10,000 words? 20,000? And how long does a novella have to be before it crosses over into the territory of the novel? How does one categorize a work...
Biblioasis, Jan. Vancouver writer Keath Fraser is one of this country’s most robust and individual literary voices; though despite a career that includes winning the Chapters/ Books in Canada First Novel Award for 1995’s Popular Anatomy and being nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award for the story collection Foreign Affairs a decade earlier, he is generally consigned to cult status at best in Canada. With luck, all that will change in spring, when Biblioasis releases not one but two editions of the author’s work. The massive retrospective volume Damages features stories...