Education in the Sunshine State
The Florida Legislature forces my alma mater to name its Department of Education after Jeb Bush (the man who can’t spell “subtle”). (Thanks, Zeebah.)
The Florida Legislature forces my alma mater to name its Department of Education after Jeb Bush (the man who can’t spell “subtle”). (Thanks, Zeebah.)
Cormac McCarthy takes the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In other news, The Road is Hollywood-bound.
If you’re free next Thursday, April 26, come on out to a party for When I Was a Loser, that anthology of high school essays I keep mentioning, at Lolita. Bring your yearbook (or marching band) photos. Answer nerd trivia. Win prizes. Contributors Kelly Braffet, Owen King, James P. Othmer, and I will read very brief selections from our essays. . . .
Those with fiction writing processes as disorganized as mine may be comforted by Michael Ondaatje’s seat-of-the-pants approach.
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