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Along skirt is another great alternative to wearing shorts in the summer. This skirt keeps going in and out of stock (so watch for a restock), and looks so gorgeous with a bodysuit or tee or tank and a cute pair of sandals.

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All in all, I really enjoyed riding chamois free. It feels way less bulky without all that padding and I can feel comfortable remaining in my cycling gear after riding without the urge to get them off. I have even started mountain biking without my chamois shorts!

In around 2007, I bought my first and only chamois, a budget version made by Mountain Equipment Co-op, which was on clearance for $37. These were rather rudimentary compared to the shorts I see in bike shops these days, with their thermo-molded, air-flow-optimizing pads, and smooth fabrics. The pad was a peanut-shaped piece of synthetic velour overlaying a thin piece of open-cell foam.

I was getting more and more in to cycle touring, and I had done enough online reading to know that anyone thinking of riding long distances usually did so wearing a chamois. So, on my next tour, I brought along the new shorts, and wore them once my butt started to hurt. I observed:

My discovery of the benefits of riding in tight, slippery underwear was worth the $37, all those years ago. At that time, I began mostly riding with Barbarian brand compression shorts (left over from my years playing rugby) under my baggies. Later, I picked the stitching out of that discount chamois, removing the padding so that they were just simple lycra shorts. These days I ride in synthetic boxer briefs ($12 on clearance from the story formerly known as Mountain Equipment Co-op), or spandex compression shorts. Of course, I also wear baggy riding shorts on top. With the padding removed, lycra shorts leave little to the imagination if worn alone.

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Boxer briefs are what every pair of running shorts wants their liner to be. Soft, form-fitting, and comfortable for many hours on end, I wear my underwear all the time without a second thought. You probably do, too.

So, why remove it in exchange for a liner that may, or may not, be as nice against the skin? I have trouble with the logic. A good pair of Saxx or other supportive underwear, that you can wear to the office before or after your run, makes sense.

On cool-start mornings, the liners hold some heat next to bits I prefer not to freeze. By mid-summer, my concern shifts to staying dry in the same areas, and mesh liners have performed admirably there.

Compression liners often include a smartphone pocket. I prefer a belt to hold my phone. However, as far as built-in pockets go, the liner pockets are infinitely more preferable than the bouncy, one-size-does-not-fit-all phone pockets on unlined and brief-lined running shorts.

As mentioned before, I can tough out a 3- to 5-mile run in brief-lined shorts, but the thought of underwear and unlined shorts seems like too many variables and would challenge the way I pack on trips. Does this all boil down to laundry?

I do see a potential laundry benefit in separate layers. A short run in boxers and unlined shorts may mean you send the boxers to the hamper and get away with another run in the outer shorts (in arid climates, at least).

Internally, our debate has been more about boxer briefs versus long-lined shorts. Those who have found boxer briefs that remain comfortable on long runs are free to wear a wider variety of simpler, and less expensive, running shorts over their underwear. Those who prefer a built-in liner made specifically for running (or workouts) are willing to pay more for an all-inclusive short and bask in its luxurious performance.

So, which camp do most runners fall into? If the running short market says anything, the vast majority choose lined running shorts. And if trailhead parking lots say anything, most runners are excellent at wiggling into their shorts, undetected, behind the wheel.

Prior to GearJunkie, he was the chief photographer for the Virgin Islands Daily News and former editor-in-chief for GearJunkie. Based in Denver, Colo., McCoy is an avid trail runner, camper, hunter, angler, mountain biker, skier, and beer tester.

M.T. Elliott is a contributor to GearJunkie. He has been writing about the outdoor industry, running, cycling, camping, and more for nearly a decade. He has freelanced for other publications such as Outside Business Journal, Gear Patrol, and before that, various newspapers. Based in Denver, Colorado, Elliott spends time running, hiking, camping, slinging beers, and occasionally fishing.

Speaking of story collections, I wrote the titular story in The Werewolf at Dusk, a collection of illustrated stories by David Small that came out this week (!). If you like graphic novels and weird short stories, check it out.

This week, The Atlantic published a new list of \u201CThe Great American Novels.\u201D It\u2019s full of both expected classics as well as both good and/or weird surprises. There is no way to do these lists without the former and no point in doing them without the latter. Overall, I think The Atlantic did a fine job. I appreciated the inclusion of graphic novels (Sabrina and Watchmen) and especially the genre books. Certainly novels like Chandler\u2019s The Big Sleep, Le Guin\u2019s The Dispossessed, Butler\u2019s Kindred, and Jackson\u2019s The Haunting of Hill House deserve spots. What\u2019s American literature without science fiction, horror, and hardboiled detective fiction? Excluding them would be like excluding Westerns and rom coms from a list of Great American Movies.

Yes, I get that the list was restricted to novels. That\u2019s fine and good. But reading the article made me think about how central the short story is to American literature. Indeed, it might be the quintessential American literary form. (I was hardly the only person to think along these lines: Amber Sparks, Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, Aaron Burch, and others had similar thoughts.)

Hell, does it make sense to put writers like George Saunders, Joy Williams, Annie Proulx, and Jhumpa Lahiri on here for novels that\u2014great as they might be\u2014are not as good or influential as their story collections? A Great American Fiction list would, I think, instead list Pastoralia (or perhaps Tenth of December), Taking Care, Close Range, and Interpreter of Maladies, respectively.

This is really less a critique of The Atlantic\u2019s list than a thought about American literature in general and perhaps a lament for the declining role of the short story. Because it is hard not to notice the shrinking prestige of short stories, even as the form is as vibrant and alive as ever in American letters.

Part of this has nothing to do with literature, per se. The past few decades have seen the much-discussed destruction of American magazines and newspapers. Many have disappeared and those that survive depend on online clicks. There\u2019s not much space for short stories, and even less money for short story authors.

But there are other factors. I often wonder what things would look like if the big literary awards followed the lead of the genre awards\u2014such as the Hugo and Nebula\u2014and included short story categories. The National Book Awards and Pulitzers command attention, readership, and press coverage. Short story collections theoretically compete for the Fiction category, but in practice almost never win. In my lifetime, only two straight story collections (A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain and Interpreter of Maladies) have won the Pulitzer for example.

I do have to shout out The Story Prize here, but I believe the short story is a unique enough form to merit it's own award categories in the biggest awards. It\u2019s as distinct a category as Young People\u2019s Literature and Poetry (to pick NBA categories) and certainly as distinct as the multiple Pulitzer non-fiction book categories (to say nothing of the many journalism awards).

Another problem for the short story is that big publishers have increasingly decided not to publish them. It used to be quite common to start your career with a two-book deal, one story collection and one novel. Back then, there was an idea an author would stay with a publisher and that publisher would build their whole career. Today, it\u2019s more common for the big publishers to allow authors\u2014who still write and love short stories\u2014to have a collection on a small press and then snatch them up for a novel. (This is part of why some call small and indie presses the \u201Cminor leagues\u201D that the big publishers poach for talent.)

There is doom loop aspect here. Because big publishers don\u2019t publish stories as often, they don\u2019t have big publicity behind. Because short stories are not awarded as often, they do not get the coverage that awards bring. Because they don\u2019t have the publicity dollars or awards coverage\u2014and tend to get left off listicles\u2014they don\u2019t sell as many copies. Thus justifying not publishing, awarding, or listing them.

I honestly believe there is more appetite for short stories than publishers might realize. In recent years, books like Carmen Maria Machado\u2019s Her Body and Other Parties and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah\u2019s Friday Black have been break-out hits and sold plenty of copies. And, while I don\u2019t want to call any authors out, increasingly many \u201Cnovels\u201D are simply lightly fixed-up short story collections. Publishers and readers seem to simply want to see the word \u201Cnovel\u201D on the manuscript even if it is a bunch of stories. (Ditto novellas, a category that has functionally disappeared as publishers simply put them out as \u201Cnovels.\u201D) Hell, one might even argue a few of The Atlantic\u2019s picks like A Visit from the Goon Squad are, in truth, a bunch of short stories in a novel trench coat.

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