![]() ![]() Indeed, even some of his longer pieces sometimes feel like extended jokes or sketch-turned-prose. ![]() In fact, one of the main criticisms the collection has received (and mind you, it’s received mostly praise on praise on praise) is that it seems like Novak threw in basically every clever thing he ever jotted down on a Post-it in between takes on The Office set. And I just can’t grade them all, because it would drive me crazy, but more importantly, it would drive YOU crazy. No, I promise it’s not the size of a dictionary, some of the stories are a sentence, some are a paragraph. Novak’s One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories because there are 64 STORIES IN THE COLLECTION. I usually grade every single piece in the collection in question, but that’s just not going to be possible with B.J. Past graded collections include Ann Patchett’s This is the Story of a Happy Marriage and Karen Russell’s Vampires in the Lemon Grove. ![]() Every once in a while I grade a collection of essays or stories on Book Riot, essay by essay or story by story. ![]()
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