Daily Archives: April 3, 2006
Award-Winning Author Cherie Priest
Posted on April 3, 2006 2 Comments
Take a moment to congratulate Cherie Priest for winning the inaugural Fiction Prize at the Blooker Awards — an award given to books that started their life, in some way, as an online entity. She won it for Four & Twenty Blackbirds, which I wrote about here. Despite a silly award name, it’s a great […]
Award-Winning Author Cherie Priest
Posted on April 3, 2006 6 Comments
Take a moment to congratulate Cherie Priest for winning the inaugural Fiction Prize at the Blooker Awards — an award given to books that started their life, in some way, as an online entity. She won it for Four & Twenty Blackbirds, which I wrote about here. Despite a silly award name, it’s a great […]
Thinking About Rich and Snooty Schools
Posted on April 3, 2006 32 Comments
Stories like this always interest me: an article in the Washington Post about how private school tuition in the area is going through the roof — $26,500 for St. Alban’s School, which if I remember correctly is where Al Gore’s kids went. Boarding rates are of course even higher: $35,000. Now apparently the same parents […]
Thinking About Rich and Snooty Schools
Posted on April 3, 2006 56 Comments
Stories like this always interest me: an article in the Washington Post about how private school tuition in the area is going through the roof — $26,500 for St. Alban’s School, which if I remember correctly is where Al Gore’s kids went. Boarding rates are of course even higher: $35,000. Now apparently the same parents […]
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