Self-publishing & open access. *openmargin - Remix (Lawrence Lessig) Twitterature. #twitterfiction festival 2012. The notebook that Pulitzer-prize winning author Jennifer Egan used to compose her short story Black Box had eight small squares on each page.
After a year of editing, those boxes turned into more than 600 tweets. In May, the New Yorker fiction department's Twitter account published the story during 10 one-hour nightly installments of tweets. Instead of using the platform to discuss a television program, a speech, or a news event occurring elsewhere, users tuned into something occurring on the platform itself. Twitter became not a second screen, but a first screen. The story Egan wrote developed differently on Twitter than it would have if written with another medium in mind. "This is not a new idea, of course," Egan wrote about her desire to compose for Twitter, "but it’s a rich one—because of the intimacy of reaching people through their phones, and because of the odd poetry that can happen in a hundred and forty characters. " 140 Characters At A (Specific) Time You decide.
Getting Real. The F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel (Dan Sinker) @MayorEmanuel. "The F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel" - Dan Sinker. Simple Tweets Of Fate (Teju Cole) Teju Cole is a Nigerian-American writer, photographer and art historian.
He is the author of the 2012 PEN/Hemingway Award-winning Open City. Teju Cole hide caption toggle caption Teju Cole Blaise Pascal once wrote that writing succinctly can be hard. The Nigerian writer Teju Cole recently devoted himself to the goal of writing in brief. In observance of National Poetry Month, Cole recently joined NPR's Steve Inskeep to discuss the Tweet-sized narratives he calls "Small Fates. " Interview Highlights On the inspiration for Small Fates "I had started doing research for a book that I'm writing, which is about Lagos, Nigeria — a narrative of contemporary life in the city. On faits divers "In doing this, I was leaning on the old French journalistic practice of the faits divers, which has not really caught on that much in the English-speaking world.
On dark humor "Wives are flammable, a police inspector, Wasiu, of Okokomaiko, has found. " On stripped-down narratives On everyday life in Nigeria. Twitter blog on Jennifer Egan's experiment. Digital archive of tweeted story 'Black Box' Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan is not new to innovation in fiction.
In her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the 49-year-old author the prestigious writing award in 2001, Egan used unusual methods to tell a story with one chapter being written like PowerPoint slides. In an apology to her twitter followers, who were recent victims of spam through her twitter account, Egan decided to reveal her new short story, “Black Box” one tweet at a time. Since May 24, the story has been tweeted at @NYerFiction between 8-9 p.m.
EST. Because of the disjointed sentences, the story reads more like a prose poem than a short story. You can read the story — tweet by tweet — below or head over to The New Yorker for a more traditional reading experience. The New Yorker * Archive. The New Yorker * announcement publication 'Black Box'