In three heartbreaking, brutally short plays - an anthology if not of horror then of angst - the fury may be fully internalized, but it is nevertheless poisonous, and seeps. Now welcome to Letts 2021, the streaming edition, as Steppenwolf Theater Company, his longtime Chicago home, unveils a virtual Letts sampler. Since then, despite the increased restraint of middle age, he has periodically released his swarms of psychic cicadas “ Linda Vista,” his 2019 Broadway outing, basically pinned American maleness to a museum wall, letting it writhe there, and us with it. Nor did “ August: Osage County,” his 2007 Broadway breakthrough, do much to advertise the charms of humanity, featuring as it did a hellish family that by the final curtain made the opening suicide seem inevitable. You wouldn’t, after all, expect bonhomie from a writer whose earliest plays were called “ Killer Joe” and “ Bug.” Even now, in dark memory, those Off Broadway hits feel somehow infested, buzzing with sociopathy. Thanks for reading this post.Tracy Letts, though always funny, has never been jolly. Term, without compromising on the important information. Honestly, it's one of the best apps I've ever seen, and it will save you an incredible amount of time over the long So in conclusion, Inshorts is a great app when it comes to design, UX, and the monetization. No clickbait,no useless images, no filler material, and definitely no sponsored content. And that's because of its singular focus of sticking to the facts. I have been, for the last few days, absolutely hooked to this app. I guess when you have a 60 word limit, you can't add the garbage, you can't add the mindless speculation, you don't have space for the opinions being thrown around as facts. It's incredible that in today's world, a small app with just a 100k downloads feels more refreshing, more interesting, and more objective than most big news channels. And I have to say, the content is exceptionally good. But then I actually started reading shorts, and looking at the articles that made the short. A company not acting according to its executives' political beliefs? Yeah that's never going to happen. At first, when I read this, I laughed at it. The developers say that shorts will only have the facts, and no opinions. These are ads that I actually want to click, because they have actual,real interesting content.īut the most important thing I was curious about, was how much they deviated from the article, and if their shorts had any biases. It's pretty clear they put thought this when they were making the app, and that attention shows. I know it sounds absurd to find the "best" ad, but they really are. These are the best ads and monetization strategy I've ever seen on a phone. The UI melts in to the content seamlessly, and the ads are, nine times out of ten, interesting articles that you actually want to click and read. It's the definition of a "native ad" in the good sense(not the sponsorhip-without-disclosure sense). I think that's the best advertising I've ever seen in an app. The articles at the bottom of the short are actually ads. The app relies on Facebook ads for revenue. If you swipe right from a short, you get to the original article that the short was made from.Īnd this is a screenshot of an original article inside the app. You can of course, share a short, or like/bookmark it. You can swipe up/down to get to the next/previous short. It's a (60 or less) word long condensed version of the article, typically with one or more images. The second section has the short, which is the main feature of the app. There's also a search section, although it's still in beta. It also has a list of topics, like Business, Travel and Science. It lets you go to the various categories, like the Top Stories, or Trending. The first is the one that is shown in the photo above. The app has a fairly simple UI, consisting of 3 main sections. It seems the shorts are human-made, and the content is in general, human curated. The app is somewhat India focused, although it also includes shorts of articles from the NYT,Huffington Post, and many other international news sources. While browsing through the Play Store, I found an app called Inshorts, which claims to condense most News articles into 60 word "shorts", that you can consume instead of reading the entire article.
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