Jennifer Egan to publish story via Twitter

Jennifer Egan / Photographed for Star Tribune by Kelly Guenther

Update: The first night's Twitter feed of the story can be read in its entirety here.

Jennifer Egan wrote a chapter of her critically acclaimed novel "A Visit from the Good Squad" entirely in the typographical style of a PowerPoint presentation, so maybe it's a natural next step for her to release a short story via Twitter.

Egan's story "Black Box" will be "serialized" on the social network site beginning at 8 p.m.Thursday. The 8,500-word story will be come out at the rate of one tweet per minute for an hour over 10 nights. It also is to be published in the May 29 science-fiction issue of The New Yorker magazine. Follow her tweets @NYerFiction.

Egan is not a big Twitter presence. Though she has 3,000 followers, she has only tweeted four times. But she told the New York Times that she admires the serialized novels of the 19th century, when authors from Dickens to Poe offered their fiction chapter by chapter in newspapers and magazines.

Egan was a guest on the Star Tribune's Talking Volumes series in 2011. You can read Kristin Tillotson's profile of Egan here. Watch a short video of her reading from "Goon Squad" here.

Below, a page from "Goon Squad" written in PowerPoint.