New York Public Library South Auditorium

Thursday, October 18, 2012

3-5 p.m. Presentation

5-7 p.m Reception 

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The Brown Institute for Media Innovation and Plympton invite you to a conversation about Twitter’s expanding opportunities for fiction hosted by The New York Public Library. With Andrew Fitzgerald (@magicandrew), Twitter’s publishing industry representative, and Deborah Treisman, fiction editor of The New Yorker (@NYerFiction).

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Fitzgerald, Twitter’s head of Editorial Programming and representative to the publishing industry, will give a presentation about the use of Twitter for creative story-telling. Fitzgerald argues that Twitter is a platform ripe for experimentation and that we are only in the early stages of learning what we can do with the 140 character tweet. He draws on examples of authors experimenting with Twitter, including Jennifer Egan and Teju Cole.

He will be joined by Deborah Treisman, fiction editor of The New Yorker, to discuss the publication of Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan’s short story Black Box via Twitter this past May.

Twitter will make a special industry announcement at the event…which was The Twitter Fiction Festival, November 28-December 2, 2012.

 

Reception following at The Bar Downstairs, located across the street at 485 Fifth Avenue.