Radio Hour: Nicholson Baker's "Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids"

By LARB Radio HourSeptember 29, 2016

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    Novelist Nicholson Baker joins Tom, Laurie, and Evan Kindley to discuss his new book, Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids, the story of Baker's time as a substitute teacher in a Maine public school system. This morphs into a fascinating discussion of pedagogy in light of the everyday realities of contemporary American public schooling and the issues modern schoolteachers confront to teach children.


    Produced by Alan Minsky

    LARB Contributor

    The LARB Radio Hour is hosted by Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf.

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