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The episode explores the concept of short story collections that are considered cohesive enough to be viewed as novels.

Send us Fan Mail And now for something completely different. In its 38th episode, the Great American Novel Podcast throws away its foundational genre with no more regard for decorum than cats and dogs shacking up in sheer defiance of the apocalypse. In this episode we instead consider a host of short story collections held to be so coherent, so cohesive, and so excellent that they are often considered as novels. We ponder: are these books novels? Are they greater than ...

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Hosts: Scott Yarbrough, Kirk Curnutt

Topics covered

• short story collections
• novels
• literary analysis
• cohesiveness
• genre exploration

Keywords

• Great American Novel
• short story cycle
• literature
• story collections
• novel analysis

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