Some Opium for iPhone

Opium joins McSweeney’s, Featherproof, and whoever else we are forgetting to mention in the category of “lit publications with iPhone apps”. Todd Zuniga talked to Jacket Copy about his mags new use of technology. JC: Is the Opium app addictive? TZ: In a word: absolutely. Opium publishes fantastic, bite-sized gems every day (next week we’ll showcase 250-Word Bookmark Contest finalists — an estimated reading time no longer than one minute and 20 seconds). So there’ll always be something new to […]

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Another reason to covet your friends technology

My really expensive text message machine just died the other day, and since I have to spend two months in flip-phone hell, I might just spoil myself and get an iPhone solely for the fact that now there is a fricken McSweeney’s app. One week you might receive a story from the upcoming Quarterly, the next week an interview from the Believer, the next a short film from a future Wholphin. Occasionally, it might be a song, an art portfolio, […]

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