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Tuesday, October 8
Eric Klinenberg, author of recent GB book club selection Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, wrote a column for yesterday's Slate on the lessons of the 1995 Chicago heat wave, and why those lessons matter in New Orleans this week.