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