For AWP
2011, a panel entitled “Linking
It Up: Working with Story Cycles, Linked Collections, and Novels in Stories” with Cathy Day, Cliff Garstang, Dylan Landis, and Anne Sanow
Here is our list of possible linked collections, novels in
stories, and story cycles—by no means exhaustive. Some of these are linked through character or
setting; some employ full story arcs across stories or sections; others are
more loosely linked. Some, like Please Don't Come Back from the Moon and Oscar Wao, are considered novels, even by their authors. We hope that you find this a good place to
start!
Julia Alvarez, How
the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg,
Ohio
Jabari Asim, A
Taste of Honey
Dean Bakopoulous, Please
Don’t Come Back from the Moon
Melissa Bank, The
Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Russell Banks, Trailerpark
and The Sweet Hereafter
Djuana Barnes, Nightwood
Andrea Barrett, Ship
Fever
Rebecca Barry, Later,
at the Bar
Matt Bell, Wolf
Parts
Wendell Berry, Fidelity
Belle Boggs, Mattaponi
Queen
Ray Bradbury, The
Illustrated Man
Robert Olen Butler, Tabloid Dreams and A Good
Scent from a Strange Mountain
Dan Chaon, Among
the Missing
Sandra Cisneros, The
House on Mango Street
Evan S. Connell, Mr.
Bridge and Mrs. Bridge
Justin Cronin, Mary
and O’Neil
Ron Currie, Jr., God
is Dead
Edwidge Danticat, The
Dew Breaker
Cathy Day, The Circus in Winter
Cathy Day, The Circus in Winter
Junot Dìaz, Drown
and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Harriet Doerr, Stones
for Ibarra
Lesley Dormen, The
Best Place to Be
Stuart Dybek, The
Coast of Chicago and I Sailed with Magellan
Jennifer Egan, A
Visit from the Good Squad
Louise Erdrich, Love
Medicine
Andrew Ervin, Extraordinary
Renditions
William Faulkner, The
Unvanquished and Go Down, Moses
Mavis Gallant, Varieties
of Exile
Cristina García, The
Lady Matador’s Hotel
Clifford Garstang, In
an Uncharted Country
Ellen Gilchrist, In
the Land of Dreamy Dreams
Julia Glass, I
See You Everywhere
Jean Harfenist, A
Brief History of the Flood
Ernest Hemingway, In
Our Time
Aleksandar Hemon, Love
and Obstacles
Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and Men
Beverly Jensen, The
Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay
Barb Johnson, More
of This World or Maybe Another
Denis Johnson, Jesus’
Son
Edward P. Jones, Lost
in the City and All Aunt Hagar’s
Children
James Joyce, Dubliners
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
Jamaica Kinkaid, Annie
John
Marshall Klimasewiski, Tyrants (the three JunHee and Tanner stories)
Jhumpa Lahiri, “Once in a Lifetime,” “Year’s End,” and
“Going Ashore” (the Hema and Kaushik stories in Unaccustomed Earth)
Laila Lalami, Hope
and Other Dangerous Pursuits
Dylan Landis, Normal
People Don’t Live Like This
John McNally, The
Book of Ralph
Susan Minot, Monkeys
Lorrie Moore, Anagrams
David Philip Mullins, Greetings from Below
Alice Munro, “Chance,” “Soon,” and “Silence” (three
Juliet stories in Runaway) and The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
Sabina Murray, The
Caprices
Gloria Naylor, The
Women of Brewster Street
Darlin’ Neal, Rattlesnakes
& the Moon
Tim O’Brien, The
Things They Carried
Whitney Otto, How
to Make an American Quilt
Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff
Katherine Anne Porter, “Old Mortality” and “Pale
Horse, Pale Rider” (from Pale Horse, Pale
Rider)
Annie Proulx, Close
Range, Bad Dirt, and Fine Just the Way It Is
Imad Rahman, I
Dream of Microwaves
Ethel Rohan, Hard
to Say
Anne Sanow, Triple
Time
Elissa Schappell, Use
Me
David Schickler, Kissing
in Manhattan
Heather Sellers, Georgia
Under Water
Joan Silber, Ideas
of Heaven
Margot Singer, The
Pale of Settlement
Mark Slouka,
Lost Lake
John Steinbeck, Pastures
of Heaven, Tortilla Flat, and The Red
Pony
Elizabeth Strout, Olive
Kitteridge
Mary Swan, The
Boys in the Trees
Amy Tan, The Joy
Luck Club
Jean Toomer, Cane
Susan Vreeland, Girl
in Hyacinth Blue
Kate Walbert, Our
Kind and A Short History of Women
Josh Weil, The
New Valley
Eudora Welty, The
Golden Apples
Thornton Wilder, The
Bridge of San Luis Rey
Virginia Woolf, Mrs.
Dalloway’s Party
Richard Wright, Uncle
Tom’s Children
Paul Yoon, Once
the Shore
Another Reading List....
Short Story Cycles, Linked
Stories, Novels-in-Stories:
A Brief Bibliography
Thematically Unified Cycles
- John Updike. Trust
Me.
- Russell Banks. Success Stories.
- Joyce Carol Oates. Faithless: Tales of Transgression.
- Antonya Nelson. Female Trouble.
- Hannah Tinti. Animal Crackers.
- Joan Silber. Ideas of Heaven.
Cycles Unified by Subgenre or Form
- Robert Olen
Butler. Tabloid Dreams.
- Daniel Stern. Twice Told Tales.
- Joyce Carol Oates. The Assignation.
- Italo Calvino. Cosmicomics.
- Lorrie Moore. Self Help.
Historical Epoch/Era-Based Cycles
- F. Scott
Fitzgerald. Tales of the Jazz
Age.
- Ernest Hemingway. In Our Time.
- Adam Braverman. Mr. Lincoln’s Wars.
- Kate Walbert. Our Kind.
Place-Based Cycles
- James Joyce. Dubliners.
- John Steinbeck. The
- James Baldwin. Going to Meet the
- John Updike. Olinger Stories.
- Edward P. Jones. Lost in the City.
Culture- or Community-Based Cycles
- Geoffrey Chaucer. The
- Sherwood Anderson.
- Russell Banks. Trailerpark.
- Gloria Naylor. The Women of
- Garrison Keillor.
- Robert Olen
Butler. A Good Scent from a
Strange Mountain.
- Crystal Wilkinson. Water
Street.
- Tim O’Brien. The Things They Carried.
Family-Centered Cycles
- William Faulkner. Go Down, Moses.
- Louise Erdrich. Love Medicine.
- Anne Tyler. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
- Susan Minot. Monkeys.
- Cristina Garcia. Dreaming in Cuban.
- T. M. McNally. Low
Flying Aircraft.
- K. L. Cook. Last Call.
Central Protagonist/Couple-Centered Cycles
- F. Scott
Fitzgerald. The Basil &
Josephine Stories.
- Ernest Hemingway. The Nick Adams Stories.
- John Updike. Too Far to Go. The Complete Henry Bech.
- David Huddle. Only the Little Bone.
- Alice Munro. The Beggar Maid: Stories of Rose and
Flo.
- Isabel Huggan. The
- Melissa Pritchard. Disappearing
Ingenue: The Misadventures of Eleanor Stoddard. .
- Justin Cronin. Mary and O’Neil.
Critical Studies about Story Cycles (Select)
·
George R. Clay. “Structuring the
Short Story Novel.” The Writer’s
Chronicle (December 1998). Vol.
31.3. 23-31.
·
Maggie Dunn and Ann Morris. The Composite Novel: The Short Story Cycle
in Transition. Twayne's Studies in Literary Themes and Genres. New York
·
Laura Morgan Green. “The Novel in Stories.” Poets & Writers.
July/Aug. 2001: 16-19.
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