Season 10, Episode 214 Linked Short Story Collections
This week we’re talking about linked short story collections. What are linked short stories, though?
These are stories that are collected and somehow linked to each other. That link can be very explicit or very subtle. They can be linked by one character who threads her/his way throughout every one or who is only mentioned marginally. They can be linked by several characters. They can be linked by the setting–if they are set in a certain town or state or country.
But they can also be linked by theme or symbol or a common experience of characters. They could all be about a shared experience, like parenthood or death or
love. Or a combination of these things.
Books Mentioned in This Episode:
1- Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar
2- We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
3- Good Taste by Caroline Scott
4- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
5- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
6- The Decameron by Giovanni Boccacio
7- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
8- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
9- Dubliners by James Joyce
10- Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
11- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
12- Birth Canal by Dias Novita Wuri
13- There, There by Tommy Orange
14- Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
15- What Makes You Think You’re Supposed to Feel Better by Jody Hobbs Hessler
16- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
17- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
18- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
19- Music of the Swamp by Lewis Nordan
20- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
21- Crooked Hallelujah by Kelly Jo Ford
22- Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta
23- Gwen and Art are Not in Love by Lex Croucher
24- Throne of Glass (series) by Sarah J. Maas
25- The Bone People by Keri Hulme
26- The Extinction of Irina Rey by Jennifer Croft
Podcasts mentioned--
Ologies with Alie Ward - www.alieward.com/ologies/oikologyencore
NPR's Book of the Day - www.npr.org/2024/03/14/11969793…-rey-jennifer-croft
Movies mentioned--
Oppenheimer (2023)
Spaceman (2024, Netflix)