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Eric Klinenberg wants you to reexamine the impact of the pandemic: ‘We are all living through the long 2020’

“This story is not over,” said Eric Klinenberg, author of “2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.” “We are all living through the long 2020.” On the Shelf 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed By Eric Klinenberg Knopf Publishing Group: 464 pages, $32 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times …

CHICAGO — Natural disasters can be dramatic — barreling hurricanes, building-toppling tornadoes — but heat is more deadly. “I don’t know a single city that is truly prepared for the worst-case scenario that some climate scientists fear,” said Eric Klinenberg, a professor of social sciences at New York University who wrote a book about the Chicago heat wave. “We just …

Natural disasters can be dramatic — barreling hurricanes, building-toppling tornadoes — but heat is more deadly. “I don’t know a single city that is truly prepared for the worst-case scenario that some climate scientists fear,” said Eric Klinenberg, a professor of social sciences at New York University who wrote a book about the Chicago heat wave. “We just don’t do …

CHICAGO — Temperatures barely climbed into the 90s and only for a couple of days. and the other thing is we are getting older and more people are living alone,” said Eric Klinenberg, a New York University sociologist, who wrote “Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago.” about the 1995 heat wave. “But subsidies for cooling are really …