Michael Sippey riffs on Jennifer Egan’s new short story that takes the form of a list of lessons, each 140 characters or less. I just read the collated first installment over on the New Yorker site and loved it—surprise, it’s totally a spy thriller!

Of course, it’s always a bit galling when an established writer invents media better (and more beautifully) than the media inventors. But that just means it’s time to up our game.