Everything Is Fucked Up Right Now, but I Know What the World Needs: a Think Piece About Wordle
I have to throw in some buzzwords that make eyes glaze over—“pandemic winter,” “lockdown ennui,” and “cultural zeitgeist” should do the trick.
Tag: Writing
Jay Gatsby Tweets About Bitcoin
@JayGatsby: If getting rich off #Bitcoin is bootlegging then lock me up, old sport.
Mind Your Dots: A Public Service Announcement on the Responsible Use of Ellipses
According to the Society for Appropriate Punctuation, the global supply of ellipses reached critically low levels during the last quarter of 2021.
An Open Letter to Adam McKay About My Own Script, a Heavy-Handed Allegory for the Iran-Contra Affair
There’s something else rapidly becoming the defining issue of our time: the 1985 Iran-Contra affair. And goddamn, I’ve written a movie about it.
Famous Authors Firing You from Your Job
Ernest Hemingway For Hire: Competent Shoes, Never Filled
You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover, Because They All Just Have the Same Colorful Blobs These Days
It can be tempting to rely on labels, especially when those labels are in stylish sans serif capitals artfully nestled among the colorful blobs.
We Wrote This Together!
John came to us by way of Elmo Fuentes, who was really the inspiration for the idea, at least according to Ryan and Ann Nguyen.
Roommates of Famous Poets Update Their Amazon Shopping Lists
Robert Frost: - Horse feed - 5-Hour Energy - Map - Seriously you cannot keep calling me to pick you up in the middle of woods
Because Ayn Rand’s Birthday and Groundhog Day Overlap, You Are Now Trapped in an Endless Loop of Capitalism
Any attempts to unionize will bounce you to the beginning of your shift at your second job driving for Uber, over and over again.
Submission Guidelines for Convolution Lit
Submissions open at 3 AM on nights when our editor-in-chief looks at the night sky and feels a particular shade of melancholy.
How to Write About Your Anxiety Instead of Actually Dealing with It
Sure you have been up since 3 AM, counting the hours before you cry in the bathroom on your lunch break. That doesn’t mean you can’t tell others how to live.
I’m Getting Different Wordles than Everyone Else and It’s Not Going Well
Wordle 187 6/6 SHIRT PANTS CLASH YIKES DRESS AGAIN