HARRY STEPHEN KEELER (via Jump Cut).

"Keeler created, and was seemingly the sole practitioner of, a genre he called the 'webwork novel'. This is a story in which diverse characters and events are connected by a strings of wholly implausible coincidences. That's interesting because, well, you're not supposed to do that. Most Western literature avoids coincidences. The author is permitted a single unlikely premise, and then everything is supposed to follow inevitably from that. Keeler's stories are coincidence porn. Coincidence is very much the raison d'etre."