ERIC KLINENBERG is an associate professor of sociology at New York University. His first book, Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, was praised as “a dense and subtle portrait” (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker); “a remarkable, riveting account” (American Prospect); “intellectually exciting” (Amartya Sen); and a “trenchant, persuasive tale of slow murder by public policy” (Salon). The recipient of numerous academic awards and fellowships, Klinenberg has written for Rolling Stone, The Nation, The Washington Post, and Slate.