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December 27 · Issue #24 · View online
The best writing, every week. Subscribe to receive great stories. Submit to share yours.
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When Writrsbloc came together earlier this year, the goal was to build an online space for writers to find an audience and inspiration. This newsletter emerged as a first, foundational step, a way to get started. Through 2016, we plan to launch, with your feedback and support, a couple different lightweight tools. We’re excited, and we hope you are too. Stay tuned–you’ll be the first to know what we’re working on. Happy reading! -Lucas
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The Billionaire Battle in the Bahamas
And you thought your neighbors were disagreeable. The ying and yang of 21st century billionaires clash over two very different takes on paradise. “The whole thing began over a puddle in a driveway.” - Eric Konigsberg | Vanity Fair
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The Shooting Gallery
When correctional officers carry shotguns, the result is death and mayhem. “They do things differently in Nevada.” - Dana Liebelson | Highline
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The Long, Incredibly Tortuous, and Fascinating Process of Creating a Chinese Font
Try designing 13,000+ intricate character shapes that all have to balance one another. Because that’s what one set of designers has been doing for years. “The story of Chinese characters begins with, of all things, turtle bellies.” - Nikhil Sonnad | Quartz
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An Unbelievable Story of Rape
An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where our story begins. “No one came to court with her that day, except her public defender.” - T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong | ProPublica + Marshall Project
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What the Hell is Water?
Over the last year–and what a year it was in this regard–Southern writer Rob Rushin penned a series of essays in which he explore the nuance of privilege and came to grips with his own quiet racism. “That’s one hell of a word: racism. It’s a fighting word, a conversation stopper. And its weight has come to be so restrictive that it allows too many of us who carry racist attitudes to pretend it does not apply to me, oh no, because I am a decent, well-intentioned person, and some of my best friends, &c.” - Rob Rushin | Immune to Boredom
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