Less conspicuously perhaps than movies or magazine covers, books can still reduce characters using the lazy shorthand of weight ...

The Fairview Inn stands as another testament to Talkeetna’s colorful past, its walls having absorbed decades of stories, songs, and the occasional tall tale told by returning mountaineers.

As LateNighter's Dennis Perkins says, "A lot of residual goodwill (for Bowen, for the holidays) buoying a raft of mediocre Christmas material." ...