"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" | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Short story by Jennifer Egan | |||
 First page of print publication in The New Yorker. | |||
| Country | US | ||
| Language | English | ||
| Genre(s) | Science fiction | ||
| Publication | |||
| Published in | The New Yorker | ||
| Publication date | 25 May 2012 (Twitter) 4 & 11 June 2012 (Magazine) | ||
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References edit
- ^ "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 edit
- "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.
- Black Box title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Literary criticism edit
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. hdl:1803/14216. 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.