Articles by Billy Corben
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This Week in Florida
A Violent Stripper, a Crazy Naked Man, and 4,000 Pounds of Cocaine
Police responded to a call about a naked man on a Tarpon Springs golf course. But when they got there, the golf course was bare, too. The naked man attacked a 7-Eleven clerk and led cops on a car chase before being apprehended. Full story
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This Week in Florida
Titty Twisters and Striptease Turkeys
Sorry I went Earl Sweatshirt on you for a few months. But I'm back. You haven't missed much—just babies getting their nipples twisted off, strip clubs giving away turkeys, a ton of cocaine, and ladies riding manatees. Full story
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This Week in Florida
Square Groupers and Manatee Orgies
It was a big week for Florida, with voter fraud, donkey fucking, 15-pound bricks of weed, and marine scientists pleading with Floridians to stop interrupting manatee orgies. Tempting though it may be. Full story
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This Week in Florida - Citrus Herpes, Pill Doctor Sex Parties, and Some Good News for Once
In 2000, in a supposed effort to curb the spread of a fruit-blemishing disease called canker, the Department of Agriculture sent Citrus Stormtroopers to bully their way into citizens’ yards and cut down their citrus trees regardless of whether or not they were infected. More than… Full story
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Griselda Blanco: So Long and Thanks for All the Cocaine
Griselda Blanco was killed outside a butcher shop in Colombia yesterday when two men on a motorcycle put two bullets into her head. Despite the location, this was unlikely a beef about beef (zing!), and probably had more to do with the scores of people she ruthlessly murdered thr… Full story
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This Week In Florida - Beware the Man with a Tanning Bed in His Barn
His operation is probably not on the level. Full story
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This Week in Florida - More Zombies and Molesting the TSA
People in Florida are still eating each other. They're also feeling up TSA agents now. Full story
The Mare
A New Story by Mary Gaitskill
Toppling a Delicate World
Being Gay and South Asian In America
There's No Sex in Prison Showers
We Usually Wore Our Underwear
Try Not to Destroy Your Life
The First Time I Took Molly
A Teacher and Her Student
Marilynne Robinson on Staying Out of Trouble
"Whitey" Isn't Very Popular in Boston
Interviews with Some of His Old Friends