Cocktails & Conversation to Feature Eric Klinenberg

In a time of deep division in our country how do we find our way forward? On Thursday, March 14th the New Rochelle Public Library Foundation will host another in the popular Cocktails & Conversation series, this time a discussion with Eric Klineneberg, author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life and New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson.

The discussion will be moderated by Prof. Amy Bass, Ph.D., Director of CNR's Honors Program. The evening begins at 6:30 at award-winning restaurant Alvin & Friends, 14 Memorial Highway, and the cost is $50 per person (includes two glasses of wine or beer and nibbles); reserve today at www.nrplfoundation.org

Copies of the author’s book will be available for sale and signing from The Voracious Reader (1997 Palmer Avenue, Larchmont, NY 10538; phone: (914) 630-4581; info@thevoraciousreader.com.) Alvin & Friends will offer a complimentary glass of wine with your entrée should you decided to also stay afterwards for dinner.

The New Rochelle Public Library Foundation is a volunteer fundraising and advocacy organization working to ensure the future well-being of the Library. The NRPL Foundation, created in 1993, supports Library initiatives that enhance opportunities for learning, exploration and public discourse. Among the Foundation’s recent contributions, it provided more than $106,000 to partially underwrite the cost of the remodel of the Ossie Davis Theater; along with new seating and exterior signage and entrance work, the upgrade includes assistive listening technology, greater accessibility and upgraded fire suppression, HVAC and other systems. For more information call the NRPL Foundation at 914-632-7878, ext. 1600 or email info@nrplfoundation.org.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Eric Klinenberg is Professor of Sociology 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 and of the journal Public Culture. 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, Time Magazine, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The Washington Post, Slate, Le Monde Diplomatique, The London Review of Books, and the radio program, This American Life.

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