Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘ADHD Nation’

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week, Alan Schwarz talks about “ADHD Nation”; Raina Telgemeier discusses “Ghosts”; Nicholson Baker talks about “Substitute”; and Gregory Cowles, Jennifer Schuessler and John Williams on what people are reading. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	Is ADHD on the rise?
0:04.4	New York Times investigative reporter Alan Schwartz is here to talk about his new book,
0:08.6	ADHD Nation.
0:10.0	A lot of these kids were the quote unquote, good kids who were trying to get better grades
0:15.6	to impress their parents and their teachers and college admissions officers.
0:19.6	I mean, it was sick.
0:20.8	What makes graphic novel so popular among kids today?
0:24.9	One of the genre's bestselling authors, Raina Telgomeyer, will join me with our children's
0:29.4	books editor Maria Russo to talk about her new book, Ghosts.
0:33.5	Do I believe in ghosts?
0:34.8	I think I believe in memories, and I think I believe that the memories of people stick
0:38.2	around for a really long time and we can keep them alive.
0:40.7	Think you could be a substitute teacher?
0:42.5	Nicholson Baker, whose new book is called Substitute, going to school with a thousand kids, joins
0:47.6	us to tell us about life in front of the classroom.
0:50.2	They broke me and I felt like a just an absolute, completely inept human being.
0:56.0	Plus we'll talk about what we and other people are reading.
0:59.0	This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.
1:00.8	I'm Pamela Paul.
1:06.4	One in seven American children today get diagnosed with ADHD, Attention, Deficit, Hyperactivity
1:12.9	Disorder.
1:14.1	My colleague here at the Times, Alan Schwartz, is an investigative reporter who's covered
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