Black Box (short story)
"Black Box" is a science fiction short story published in May 2012 by American writer Jennifer Egan. It was released in an unusual serialized format: as a series of tweets on The New Yorker's Twitter account over nine days beginning May 25, 2012.[1][2][3][4] The story is in the form of "mental dispatches" from a spy living in the Mediterranean area in the near future.[5]
| Black Box | |
|---|---|
| by Jennifer Egan | |
 First page of print publication in The New Yorker. | |
| Country | US |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction |
| Published in | The New Yorker |
| Publication date | 25 May 2012 (Twitter) 4 & 11 June 2012 (Magazine) |
| Preceded by | A Visit from the Goon Squad |
References
- "Coming soon: Jennifer Egan's 'Black Box'". The New Yorker website. New York: Conde Nast. May 24, 2012. Retrieved May 26, 2012.
- Stoeffel, Kat (May 26, 2012). "The New Yorker Will Serialize Jennifer Egan's Short Story on Twitter, Starting Tonight". The New York Observer online. New York. Retrieved May 26, 2012.
- Kirtley, David Barr (May 24, 2012). "Let's Hope Jennifer Egan's Twitter Story Heralds the Return of Serial Fiction". Wired.com. Conde Nast. Retrieved May 26, 2012.
- Gee, Lisa (September 1, 2012). "Black Box, By Jennifer Egan". Independent. United Kingdom. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
- Osthimer, Mickey (July 17, 2016). "Egan's Twitter-Formatted "Black Box" As a Critique of 21st Century Conversation". Ploughshares. Emerson College. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
External links
- "Black Box" at The New Yorker
- An In-depth Look at..."Black Box.". (April 29, 2021). Scripturients. Accessed on May 5, 2021.
- Orf, Darren (June 6, 2012). "Read "Black Box" by Jennifer Egan—Tweet by Tweet". Paste magazine. Paste Media Group. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
Literary criticism
Below are literary critiques pertaining to Jennifer Egan's "Black Box":
- Fladager, Daniel (2020). "Jennifer Egan's Digital Archive: A Visit from the Goon Squad, Humanism, and the Digital Experience" (see section entitled "“Black Box” and the Digital Metafictional"). Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory. 31 (4): 313–327. doi:10.1080/10436928.2020.1840004. S2CID 230065601.
- Gutman, Jennifer (2020). "Cyborg Storytelling: Virtual Embodiment in Jennifer Egan's "Black Box"". Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 61 (3): 274–287. doi:10.1080/00111619.2020.1716679. S2CID 214202583.
- Newman, Daniel Aureliano (2018). "Your body is our black box: Narrating nations in second-person fiction by Edna O'Brien and Jennifer Egan". Frontiers of Narrative Studies. 4: 42–65. doi:10.1515/fns-2018-0004. S2CID 165497014.
- Precup, Amelia (2015). "The Posthuman Body in Jennifer Egan's "Black Box"". American, British and Canadian Studies Journal. 25: 171–186. doi:10.1515/abcsj-2015-0013. S2CID 194666699.
- Santini, Laura (2020). "Scenes of Vulnerability in You Narratives: Winterson's PowerBook and Egan's Black Box". Iperstoria (16). doi:10.13136/2281-4582/2020.i16.926.
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