If it seems like books and movies get longer each fall, it’s not just your imagination.

Publishers and Hollywood execs figure we spend more time indoors as the temperatures start to dip and that we have more bandwidth to immerse ourselves in books and movies that require (or think they require) a little extra space to unveil their stories. With beach reads behind us, fall also tends to be a bit more serious, so it’s the likeliest time to find more leisurely paced awards contenders on screen and on the page.

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