![]() ![]() ![]() 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 York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Time Magazine, Fortune, The Wall St Eric Klinenberg is Professor of Sociology Public Policy and Media, Culture, and Communications at New York University. He is the author of 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. Eric Klinenberg is Professor of Sociology Public Policy and Media, Culture, and Communications at New York University. ![]()
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A heartwarming small town beach series, filled with happily ever afters, hot guys, and best friends. Carrie Elks writes the “Angel Sands” series of contemporary romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes the owners themselves have physical limitations so keeping a small number of chickens indoors as pets is easier than maintaining an outdoor coop. Some birds are low in the pecking order and get bullied some came into the house during quarantine or illness and never returned to a flock, while others have a disability like blindness or mobility issues. The reasons for having house chickens seem to run the gamut as well. Their experiences seem to vary widely from having just one bird to a whole flock from keeping birds predominantly outside while allowing them to come in for visits to chickens who have lived their whole lives never having touched the ground. 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No one at the Edge of Reason Lodge is aware she was the young teenager who'd survived one of the most publicized kidnappings in recent history, and she wants it to stay that way. Attraction flares for the man who seems to really "know" her. Mel Bennett's carefully maintained control unravels the moment she meets Cache Calder. But when his editor informs him that his subject is former kidnapping victim, Amelia Bennett who jump-started his career twenty years earlier, he packs his bags. ![]() The last thing he wants is to travel to the wilds of Alaska on a "Where Is She Now" Assignment. He's just returned from the Middle East after surviving a suicide bombing that left him injured and grief-stricken. Photojournalist Cache Calder lives to chase a great story. EDGE (Full-length Novel) Living on the Edge can be murder. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The poem is timely as well as formally commendable. Here, the difficult subject of the forces denying girls an education in Afghanistan is approached at an angle by which the poet ingeniously mixes the language of science with the plight of the young students to form a kind of mathematics of intolerance. An accomplishment in understatement. – Billy Collins The flora and flora are intimately rendered for nothing has changed, except a terrible sense of absence, creating a palpable split on what’s on either side of the window. ![]() This poem is subtle elegy which uses the familiar scene of a rural backyard to evoke the absence of a loved one. Comments on the winning three poems are from Billy Collins (below), who we sincerely thank for lending his time and experience to judge the prize.Ĭongratulations to these ten poets, and also to those whose poems made the short and long-lists. ![]() |