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January 3 · Issue #25 · View online
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Don’t look now, but it’s already 2016. This week’s storytelling roundup kicks off with our very own look back at Writrsbloc in 2015, shared exclusively with you before anyone else. That’s the last you’ll see me look backward, though. From here on out, it’s onward and upward. Have a spectacular week. Happy Reading! -Lucas
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The Trouble With Side Projects: Writrsbloc in 2015
Because of your support over the last year, I wanted to share this post with you first. Without further adieu, here’s a handful of things I’ve learned sending a weekly newsletter to 400 people (you!) and probably a couple of bots.
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The Greatest Lawyer Who Ever Lived
He’s the brashest, most generous, most foul-mouthed trial attorney in the country. And at 89, Joe Jamail can still command a courtroom, mother%*!$#@. “He once took a $675,000 judgment against Sears into the retail chain’s downtown Houston location, commandeered the intercom, and informed employees that he’d just taken over the store.” - John Spong | Texas Monthly
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What Happened to William Wade?
35 years ago William Wade won Homecoming Princess at Florida State University, but prejudice kept him from accepting the award. That finally changed just a few months back. “A total of 20 students ran for homecoming princess in 1980. Wade spent the least of them all: His entire campaign cost just $3.56, enough for a few dozen photocopies and a roll of scotch tape. ‘Billie Dahhling,’ he called himself on his campaign posters. ‘A queen with a difference.’” - Kathleen McGrory | Tampa Bay Times
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The Hustlers at Scores
A group of women working the strip clubs saw themselves as Robin Hoods. The clients saw it differently. “If the guy at the precinct who answered the phone had a dollar for every time he’d heard a caller say he’d been drugged and his credit card run up at a strip club, he’d be retired already” - Jessica Pressler | The Cut
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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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