Description
About the Author
Carlo Rotella is director of the American studies program at Boston College. He writes for the New York Times Magazine, and he has been a regular op-ed columnist for the Boston Globe and radio commentator for WGBH. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, the Believer, Washington Post Magazine, and Best American Essays.
Reviews
"An ambitious analysis of a singular neighborhood that in some ways serves as a microcosm for all urban neighborhoods. . . . The author offers a nuanced narrative, partly personal and partly sociological, that keeps circling back to the same important truths about race, class, community, poverty, and crime. A thought-provoking deep dive into a neighborhood that remains in perpetual transition."--Eric Klinenberg "Kirkus" "An evocative and engaging mix of the minutely personal, the more broadly ethnographic, and the sociological in its description and analysis of a complex and interesting slice of Chicago. Rotella, who also works in long-form journalism, brings his gifts as a writer to bear on his experience of place and the terms of place itself."--Eric Klinenberg "Los Angeles Review of Books" "It's fair to call Rotella a poet of urban life, alive to the freedom that cities offer us to pursue lives of our own devising, and of masculinity and the ways men lose and find themselves in their passions."--Wendy Griswold, Northwestern University "National, on Playing in Time" "Some books take a while to draw you in. But when I'd finished the first paragraph of Carlo Rotella's The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Pulling Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood, I knew that I was going to love it." --John Wilson "Forma Review" "The World Is Always Coming to an End is unlike any work of contemporary urban studies that I know. It combines elements of journalism, archival research, ethnography, and memoir in a study of South Shore--the South Side, Chicago, neighborhood in which Carlo grew up, in the 1970s. It's at times lyrical, at times analytic, and always engaging."--Eric Klinenberg "Public Books"
Book Information
ISBN 9780226759616
Author Carlo Rotella
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint University of Chicago Press
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 28mm