[Read of Interest] Jennifer Egan's Short Story, "Black Box", will be going live tonite on Twitter

Jetée · May 24, 2012

Per the article, via The NYTimes:

When the novelist Jennifer Egan submitted her latest short story to The New Yorker, she hinted to Deborah Treisman, the fiction editor, that there was a catch. It soon became evident: Ms. Egan had written an entire work of fiction in 140 character bits, to be first posted on Twitter and then published in the magazine.

“I had a sense it could work for a spy story,” Ms. Egan said this week while sitting in Ms. Treisman’s office.

Ms. Treisman was receptive to the idea, so much so that this week the New Yorker will begin publishing the story, “Black Box,” in segments on Twitter. Starting Thursday night, the New Yorker’s Twitter fiction handle, @NYerFiction, will post a new tweet of text from Ms. Egan’s 8,500 word story every minute between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. The tweets will continue for 10 straight nights.
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Keeping it short: good idea, bad idea?

Jetée · May 29, 2012

More on this: Tweeting Science Fiction (audio)

This week’s issue of the magazine is the Science Fiction issue.
Here Deborah Treisman talks with Jennifer Egan about her
story “Black Box,” written as a series of Tweets.

Listen to the mp3 on the webpage in-laid, or right-click HERE to download. (then listen)

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