The Reading Life With Nicholson Baker And Hortensia Calvo

By Susan Larson

Published November 1, 2016 at 1:30 PM CDT

This week on The Reading Life: Nicholson Baker, whose new book is Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids, and Hortensia Calvo, the director of the Latin American Library at Tulane University.

**Lagniappe Audio**

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Nicholson Baker describes the schools where he taught.

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Nicholson Baker talks about how children feel when they fail and also about technology in today's schools.

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Hortensia Calvo talks about some of her favorite items in the Latin American Library at Tulane University.

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Hortensia Calvo tells of the direction that she would like to take at the Latin American Library at Tulane University, and of libraries in general.

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Susan Larson

The Reading Life in 2010, Susan Larson was the book editor for The New Orleans Times-Picayune from 1988-2009. She has served on the boards of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and the New Orleans Public Library. She is the founder of the New Orleans chapter of the Women's National Book Association, which presents the annual Diana Pinckley Prizes for Crime Fiction.. In 2007, she received the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities lifetime achievement award for her contributions to the literary community. She is also the author of The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans. If you run into her in a local bookstore or library, she'll be happy to suggest something you should read. She thinks New Orleans is the best literary town in the world, and she reads about a book a day.

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