“Why devote time and words to advancing the cause of the novella?” asks James Morrison. “Because the best novellas allow the reader to approach literary perfection. Falling between the short story (which far too many people, even keen readers, foolishly dismiss, saying that they finish just as they start to get into them) and the novel (many of which, even when very good indeed, go on far too long), the novella can combine all the depth and richness of a great novel, with the brevity of a long story, meaning the average reader can absorb it all in one reading session.” In his monthly “Small But Perfectly Formed” column on the form for Bookslut, Morrison focusses on the Art of the Novella series from Melville House, saying it consists of “excellent examples of what the novella can achieve.”