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An Evening with Eric Klinenberg

In Conversation with Emilio De Torre

Join the Milwaukee Public Library for an evening with acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author, Dr. Eric Klinenberg. Co-sponsored by Boswell Book Company and the Milwaukee Turners.

Eric will be in conversation with Emilio De Torre, the Executive Director of the Milwaukee Turners at Turner Hall.

Doors open to for general admission at 6:00PM. Advance registration is required. Boswell Book Company will be onsite for book sales throughout the event, and a book signing with the author will follow the public presentation. 

About the Author: Eric Klinenberg is Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He is the author of 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed (2024), Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (2018), Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone (2012), Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media (2007), and Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (2002), as well as the editor of Cultural Production in a Digital Age, co-editor of Antidemocracy in America (2019), and co-author, with Aziz Ansari, of the New York Times #1 bestseller Modern Romance (2015). His scholarly work has been published in journals including the American Sociological Review, Theory and Society, and Ethnography, and he has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and This American Life.

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