The phrase "a novel normal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a new or different standard or condition that has emerged, often in response to changing circumstances.
Example: "In the wake of the pandemic, remote work has become a novel normal for many companies."
Alternatives: "a new standard" or "an unusual norm".
She is a freelance magazine writer and the author of a novel, "Normal Girl" (Villard, 2000).
"Yes, but I would never have written it if she hadn't already done so herself," she says (Molly, who is now a writer, once published a novel, Normal Girl, about a young woman who is destroying herself with drugs).
A simple and accurate novel normal mode analysis has been developed to take into account the effect of the non-uniform depth of polishing in the study of the transmission characteristics of optical waveguide devices based on loading of a side-polished fiber half-coupler with a multimode planar waveguide.
The rebuttal to D. T. Max's Bookend blast against the new e-publishing ("No More Rejections," July 16) is contained in the same issue of the Book Review, in which a review of Molly Jong-Fast's novel, "Normal Girl," suggests that the book would never have found a publisher had the author not been the daughter of a famous novelist.
For the picture-perfect couple in Netzer's finely textured first novel, "normal" is an illusion.
To address these limitations, we designed a novel "Virtual Normal" algorithm (VN), which allowed for construction of an unbiased reference signal directly from test samples within an experiment using any publicly available normal reference set as a baseline thus eliminating the need for an in-lab normal reference set.
"I think it tastes like paste," said Molly Jong-Fasthethe author of the novel "Normal Girl," who was licking a dulce de leche at the Third Avenue CremaLita.
As Ms. Jong-Fast writes in her first novel, "Normal Girl," (Villard), "The children of famous people are a bit like Communism, better in concept than in practice".
I experienced something comparable to that sensation when I read Irish writer Sally Rooney's revelatory second novel Normal People, out next Tuesday (the 28th of August).
With "& Sons," David Gilbert — the author of a novel, "The Normals," and a short-story collection, "Remote Feed" — has set out to write a big, ambitious book about fathers and sons, Oedipal envy and sibling rivalry, and the dynamics between art and life, talent and virtue.
And it's not even a novel in the normal sense, but rather a mass confabulation that evaporates in front of us, an astrological divination waning like the moon, the first section 360 pages long (or are those degrees?), the last a mere sliver.
