Deborah Treisman

In an experimental move, The New Yorker is planning to release a short sequel to Jennifer Egan's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, through 140-character installments on Twitter. "Black Box" takes a A Visit from the Goon Squad character and paints her as a female spy in the 2030s. As she goes undercover among suspected terrorists, she keeps a mental log of events — all in dispatches of 140 characters or less. The format naturally lends itself to serialization on Twitter — and indeed, Egan said that she came