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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Jennifer Egan story New Yorker

I love the new yorker sci fi cover and give the Eds props for offering something different in the summer fiction issue this year tho thought and hoped that there might actually be some scifi in the mag to prove the point that scifi is crashing the gate - is it? - but they do at least include 3 stories ( have not yet read the 4th) that are experimental in form: stories by sam Lipsyte and j letham are pretty good at least forcing you to read with care to discern what's going on - but the real prize is Jennifer egan's story black box - I didn't love all the pieces in her novel/collection goon squad but appreciated her adventuresome interest in form - one chapter eg a story in ppt that already feels dated - but black box is a knockout a story in a series of several hundred tweets almost each of which could stand alone beautifully but that cohere to make a very thoughtful intense narrative. Maybe this is a one-off buy it's also one of those rare stories that shows new possibilities for fiction. Would be fun to have read it literally as a series of tweets and I think it's possible to do so.

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