By 8 a.m., dozens of
cabs, vans, and shuttles are lined up to
take students from the celebrated Catholic school to jobs where they earn most of their private - school tuition.
You are talking to a man whose mentor (John Ohliger) first brought me into the book review game because he wanted to
take what had been a kind of academic white tower of book reviewing reserved for the literary elites into the province of the common folk — housewives,
cab drivers,
students, (and in my case) social workers.