Which Best Modern Short Story Writers Experiment Most With Form?

2026-07-18 22:43:53
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The environmental crisis is spawning its own formal experiments. Stories that try to capture deep time, multispecies perspectives, or the non-human. I read a story recently written from the alternating POVs of a mountain, a river, and a developer over centuries. It was clunky in parts, but the ambition was thrilling. How do you give narrative form to climate grief? That's the big formal challenge for a lot of writers right now, I think.
2026-07-19 17:32:40
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Hmm, I'm drawing a blank on specific names beyond the usual suspects everyone's already listing. I feel like I should know more. Maybe I've been reading too much novel-length stuff lately. Anyone have a good link to a 'best of' list from a site like Electric Lit? I'd trust a curated list over my spotty memory right now.
2026-07-21 13:53:34
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