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IN SHORT

Nicholson Baker braves the classroom in Substitute (Blue Rider).

September 2016 Anderson Tepper
Fanfair
IN SHORT

Nicholson Baker braves the classroom in Substitute (Blue Rider).

September 2016 Anderson Tepper

Nicholson Baker braves the classroom in Substitute (Blue Rider). Dr. Mary Aiken diagnoses The Cyber Effect (Spiegel & Grau). Jill Kargman vents in Sprinkle Glitter on My Grave (Ballantine). Critic Clive James binge-watches in Play All (Yale). In Now I Sit Me Down (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Witold Rybczynski explores chair culture. Misty Copeland (Rizzoli), by Misty Copeland and Gregg Delman, soars. Elizabeth Greenwood'sPlaying Dead (Simon & Schuster) exposes "death fraud." Stuart Vevers and Joel Dinerstein flaunt their Coach (Rizzoli). Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman (Norton), by Miriam Horn, heralds conservationists. David Byars'sOur Time at Foxhollow Farm (Excelsior Editions) glories in the Hudson Valley.