"Ten or 15 years ago, I was writing slim and comic novels and poems about nothing," he said.

In 1980 a slim novel appeared that introduced a "new" writer to the American public.

This slim novel may not be the most ambitious on this year's shortlist, but it is the one that most cries out to be loved.

The first generation of chips stores up to 512,000 bytes of information, roughly the amount of text in a slim novel.

They are mostly novels, mostly slim, and mostly astoundingly good.

In her slim novel, Ms. Randall subtly changes the way readers see the house and the people who lived and worked there.

Feminist tracts and slim novels lined the windows.

Perhaps the most remarkable quality of Maron's slim novel is the variety of registers within the rich narrative.

Henry James did not much like "Washington Square," the slim novel he penned in 1880 for magazine serialization.

As slim Gothic novels go, there are many worse.