Books: Nicholson Baker's "Substitute"

Fall means book season, and one of the newest out there is Nicholson Baker's Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids.

From the promotional copy:

"In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district.

"What emerges from Baker’s experience is a complex, often touching deconstruction of public schooling in America: children swamped with overdue assignments, over­whelmed by the marvels and distractions of social media and educational technology, and staff who weary themselves trying to teach in step with an often outmoded or overly ambitious standard curriculum."

See also this NYT review.