And if rankings are determined by dollar sales then a novella has to sell dramatically more to compete with a full length novel.

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The Golden Gate (1986), a full-length novel in verse, was a tour de force.

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For more than a year Lyons anonymously posted a satirical blog about the innermost thoughts of Fake Steve Jobs. (Several months ago the New York Times outed Lyons as the author.) Lyons has triumphantly demonstrated that the humor of the Fake Steve Jobs postings works as a full-length novel.

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