Events
Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 6:15pm - 8:15pm
Columbia University
Morningside Campus
Pulitzer Hall (formerly Journalism Hall), Room 301
Sharon Marcus, the Orlando Harriman Professor of English at Columbia University and the fiction editor of Public Books, interviews Eric Klinenberg, the author of what The Atlantic
has called "The Most Conversation-Generating Book about How We Live
Now" of 2012. In Going Solo, NYU Professor of Sociology Klinenberg
upends conventional wisdom about how the rise of living alone is
transforming modern life. Challenging the myths of increasing social
isolation and community decline, Klinenberg argues instead that the
dramatic emergence of single living is made possible by the robustness
of urban societies, and he highlights its benefits as well as its
dangers.
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