Carlo Rotella is a writer, journalist, and scholar. His most recent book is The World Is Always Coming to An End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood (2019)— about South Shore, the neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago where he grew up in the 1970s. Among the subjects that recur in his writing are cities and city life, boxing, teaching and learning, blues, country music, crime, fantasy and science fiction, movies, basketball, landscape, the Rust Belt, children and parents, neighborhood, apocalyptic doomsayers, Chicago, Boston, how people get good at things, and a great deal of violent mayhem.
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