Eric Klinenberg Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Eric Klinenberg

Yellowstone is flooded out. Soon there will be no glaciers at Glacier National Park. The cactuses in Saguaro National Park are dying of heat, as are the Joshua Trees in Joshua Tree National Park. Lake Mead is nearly dry. We need a heat emergency plan. https://t.co/9Wmr0Fc9fg

Eric Klinenberg

Spending today reading *Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women* by @kate_manne and the galleys of *Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present* by @ruthbenghiat. @nyu_ipk will be hosting the authors for a conversation on Nov 9. Here's the event description: 🔥🔥🔥

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Novels may be our best new companions these next few months. My favorite reads from 2020: *The Great Believers* by @rebeccamakkai *Deacon King Kong* by James McBride *A Burning* by @MeghaMaj *A Children's Bible* by Lydia Millet *The Resisters* by @GishJen Stay safe!

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In the beginning of 2020 I got my wife tickets to see David Byrne’s *American Utopia,* for her birthday that April. We got there last night and woah, did we appreciate the burst of humanity and vision of a better world. Thank you @americanutopia https://t.co/Gtym8cXmw2

Eric Klinenberg

Some of Todd Gitlin's great books: *The Sixties* *The Whole World is Watching* *Inside Television* *Twilight of Common Dreams* I hope sociology creates more opportunities for scholars who follow in Todd's footsteps, critical intellectuals who write and teach to change the world

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I was fortunate to get an advance copy of @kiangoh's *Form and Flow,* which is out today. It is one of the most exciting books I've read on the problem of resilience and #ClimateJustice. Original, smart, challenging, and useful. Don't miss it. https://t.co/t91owQvVji

Eric Klinenberg

Novels may be our best new companions these next few months. My favorite reads from 2020: *The Great Believers* by @rebeccamakkai *Deacon King Kong* by James McBride *A Burning* by @MeghaMaj *A Children's Bible* by Lydia Millet *The Resisters* by @GishJen Stay safe!

Eric Klinenberg

If you're interested in the sociology of #ClimateChange, don't miss *Soaking the Middle Class,* the new book about disaster displacement from @anna_rhodes1 & Max Besbris. They make the case for public investment in #ManagedRetreat in today's @nytopinion https://t.co/JlyJCEUq36

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The revival of *American Buffalo* is brilliant. So is this review from @jessekgreen, who nails the play and its author, David Mamet: "When a playwright begins to sound in life like his characters do onstage, you have to wonder: Who’s teaching whom?" https://t.co/94M0gBWbf1

Eric Klinenberg

Reading *City of Quartz* as an undergrad was the thing that made me want to be an urban sociologist. RIP Mike Davis. His mind was on fire and his prose still is. https://t.co/hqddW5knl1