How to win the lottery

Coming soon to a theater (or couch) near you. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

This is a story about ordinary people making a good deal of money.

A couple of years ago, a writer named Jason Fagone realized the dream of nearly every nonfiction author I know: he wrote an 11,000-word story for the Huffington Post that went viral, then got optioned for a movie.

The story doesn’t stop there, as it sometimes does with Hollywood productio…