Eric Klinenberg
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Eric Klinenberg

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Eric Klinenberg is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He's the author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life, and co-author, with Aziz Ansari, of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Modern Romance. Klinenberg's previous books include Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone, also published by the Penguin Press. Time Magazine featured Going Solo as the #1 Idea That is Changing Your Life in the March 12, 2012 cover story. Vanity Fair called it "trailblazing." Psychology Today called it "so important that it is likely to become both a popular read and a social science classic." The New Yorker argued that the book "suggests that our usual perceptions about life alone get things backward." And the Washington Post explained that "Going Solo is really about living better together--for all of us, single or not." Klinenberg's first book, Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, won six scholarly and literary prizes (and was a Favorite Book selection by the Chicago Tribune), and was praised as "a dense and subtle portrait" (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker); "a remarkable, riveting account" (American Prospect); "intellectually exciting" (Amartya Sen); and a "trenchant, persuasive tale of slow murder by public policy" (Salon). Professor Klinenberg's second book, Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media, was called "politically passionate and intellectually serious," (Columbia Journalism Review), "a must-read for those who wonder what happened to good radio, accurate reporting and autonomous public interest" (Time Out New York), and "eye-opening ...required reading for conscientious citizens" (Kirkus). Since its publication, he has testified before the Federal Communications Commission and briefed the U.S. Congress on his findings. In addition to his books and scholarly articles, Klinenberg has contributed to popular publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Time Magazine, Fortune, The London Review of Books, The Nation, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, The Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique, Slate, and the radio program This American Life.
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    • Palaces for the People

    • How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
    • Written by: Eric Klinenberg
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    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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    • The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone
    • Written by: Eric Klinenberg
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
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    • Release date: 2012-02-02
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    • A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Second Edition with a New Preface
    • Written by: Eric Klinenberg
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    • Das Jahr, das die Welt veränderte [The Year that Changed the World]
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