A Visit from the Goon Squad
Thirteen linked chapters, each in a different style (including one written entirely in PowerPoint slides), following a web of characters connected to the music industry across several decades. Egan published it in 2010 and won the Pulitzer. The goon squad of the title is time. The formal restlessness is the point; each chapter proves the novel can do something it was not supposed to be able to do.
Linked stories in a novel's clothing. Chapters vary wildly in strength; for every Sasha or Scotty showstopper there's a thin satellite you'll forget by morning, and characters exit just as they earn your interest. The final near-future section, all text-speak and toddler marketing dystopia, dated faster than anything else Egan has written.
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
