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Podcast Mentions

There Are No Children Here

Alex Kotlowitz

This is the moving and powerful account of two  remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's  Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex  disfigured by crime and neglect.

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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

It was a 1992 book recommended as further reading that focused on life in the Horner Homes, another Chicago housing project.

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If you want to know more about life in in these projects, there are two books that Steve Bougiere recommends. One's called High Rise Stories, a collection of interviews from former project residents a...

— Episode: 266 - Rave After Rave

Episode: 266 - Rave After Rave

It was a 1992 book recommended as further reading that focused on life in the Horner Homes, another Chicago housing project.

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If you want to know more about life in in these projects, there are two books that Steve Bougiere recommends. One's called High Rise Stories, a collection of interviews from former project residents and another one by an author named Alex Kotlowitz. That's from 1992. And it's called There Are No Children Here, an account of life in the Horner homes.

This American Life

The book was highlighted as Alex Kotlowitz's bestknown work about innercity violence and trauma.

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He's probably best known for his book, There Are No Children Here.

— Episode: 484: Doppelgängers

Episode: 484: Doppelgängers

The book was highlighted as Alex Kotlowitz's bestknown work about innercity violence and trauma.

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He's probably best known for his book, There Are No Children Here.

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