"Black Box" is a

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published in May 2012 by American writer

Jennifer Egan Jennifer Egan (born September 7, 1962) is an American novelist and short-story writer. Her novel, ''A Visit from the Goon Squad,'' won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. From 2018 to 2020, she ...

. It was released in an unusual serialized format: as a series of tweets on ''

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account over nine days beginning May 25, 2012. The story is in the form of "mental dispatches" from a spy living in the

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area in the near future. "Black Box" appeared under the title "Lulu the Spy, 2032" in Egan's 2022 novel '' The Candy House''.

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Literary criticism

Below are literary critiques pertaining to Jennifer Egan's "Black Box": * * * * * {{cite journal , doi=10.13136/2281-4582/2020.i16.926 , title=Scenes of Vulnerability in You Narratives: Winterson's PowerBook and Egan's Black Box , year=2020 , url=https://iperstoria.it/article/view/926, last1=Santini , first1=Laura , journal=Iperstoria , issue=16 2012 short stories Science fiction short stories Spy short stories