What can we learn from the cascading crises of 2020? The New Rochelle Public Library Foundation brings influential NYU professor Eric Klinenberg back to discuss his newest book, 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed for the next evening of Cocktails & Conversation on April 4 at Alvin & Friends Restaurant.
The year 2020 may be one of the most unforgettable in history, encompassing a global pandemic, a high-stakes presidential election, rising distrust, and raging protests. Klinenberg, an expert on urban life, brings poignant and well-researched stories of seven ordinary New Yorkers facing their hopes and fears. This gripping and deeply moving book attempts to capture the full human experience of that fateful time, helping us reckon with what we lived through and recognize the challenges we may confront in the future.
Cocktails & Conversation is one of the NRPL Foundation’s signature events, designed to bring book lovers together. The Cocktails & Conversation series features author discussions moderated by Prof. Amy Bass, Ph.D., NRPL Foundation Board Member, historian and acclaimed author (One Goal: A Coach, A Team and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together). Copies of Klinenberg’s book will be available for sale and signing from J. Anderson Books (96 Chatsworth Avenue, Larchmont).
Cocktails & Conversation will take place at Alvin & Friends Restaurant (14 Memorial Highway, New Rochelle) from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm.
Tickets cost $60 and include delicious nibbles and two drinks; proceeds benefit the non-profit NRPL Foundation. Tickets are available at https://bit.ly/3u4l8NH or by mail with a check payable to NRPLF sent to New Rochelle Public Library Foundation, 1 Library Plaza, New Rochelle, NY 10801.
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 Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Crown, 2018), Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone (The Penguin Press, 2012), Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media (Metropolitan Books, 2007), and Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 2002), as well as the editor of Cultural Production in a Digital Age, co-editor of Antidemocracy in America (Columbia University Press, 2019), and co-author, with Aziz Ansari, of the New York Times #1 bestseller Modern Romance (The Penguin Press, 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.