Writing the Interconnected Novel
Readers are flocking to interconnected novels, and it’s no wonder. In these book-length collections of interrelated short stories, each story can stand on its own individually but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Think Elizabeth Strout’s “Olive Kitteridge,” Louise Erdrich’s “Love Medicine,” Cristina Henríquez’s “The Book of Unknown Americans,” Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit