Book Review: The Lottery Wars
Review by Joshua Spivak, as published in San Francisco Chronicle, April 7, 2009
All you need is a dollar and a dream. This was the motto for New York Lottery's great ad campaign, and it truly captures the easy-money sales pitch that has turned the lottery into a nationwide success. And it's only growing. Dollars may be in short supply, thanks to the economic collapse, but the dream of instant riches endures.
This is actually an old tale. In The Lottery Wars, Matthew Sweeney takes an incis ...
Apr 7, 2009, 6:39 pm - - Lottery News forum
Review: Vultures feast on desperate lottery winners
Money for Nothing is a glimpse into a seedy business few will ever encounter.
Edward Ugel writes about the trade of preying on bottomed-out lottery winners, crazy for cash to meet their growing debts, waiting for their next annual annuity check to arrive from the state coffers.
His tale is a colorfully written account by a self-proclaimed overweight, chain-smoking, Krispy Kreme doughnut-eating, fanatical gambler.
For just shy of a decade starting in the late 1990s, Ugel says he worked i ...
Sep 24, 2007, 11:05 am - - Lottery News forum
Book imagines low-IQ man winning $12 million in Washington lottery
Seattle native Patricia Wood knows how winning a lottery can change a life. Her father won $6 million in 1993 in the Washington lottery.
She also knows about the mentally disabled from having a former brother-in-law with Down syndrome, from working as a teacher and now as a Ph.D student at the University of Hawaii, focusing on education, disability and diversity.
She has taken elements of those experiences to write her first novel, Lottery, about an Everett man, Perry Crandall, with an I ...
Aug 14, 2007, 11:18 am - - Lottery News forum
Widow recounts slaying of CT Lottery chief in new book
Delaware native Denise Brown has always enjoyed writing, but becoming a published author has been a bittersweet journey for the 47-year-old.
Although she's glad that her memoir, The Unspeakable, is available to readers, she would've preferred that there had never been a need to write it.
That's because her memoir, released last month by the University of Delaware Press, is about the minutes, hours, days and years following the violent death of her husband, Otho R. Ott Brown in 1998.
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Feb 13, 2007, 10:42 am - - Lottery News forum
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