Short story by Jennifer Egan serialized on Twitter

Jennifer Egan, a Pulitzer prize winning author had written her latest short story with a catch. She wrote the entire story in bits of 140 characters or less, so the story could be serialized on Twitter. She had submitted her story to the New Yorker and hinted to the fiction editor, Deborah Treisman that there was a catch in the writing. The New York Times says that Egan told Treisman that she had a sense it could work for a spy story. The story's name is Black Box and has already started being tweeted in the installments that it was written in on the @NYerFiction twitter account. The story is comprised of 8500 words and the New Yorker Fiction account will tweet lines from the story between 8 and 9 pm every night for 10 straight nights (between 5:30 am and 6:30 am India time). A summary of the tweeted text will also be availale on the magazine's website after the Twitter account has stopped tweeting each night.