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Jennifer Haigh

Jennifer Haigh's fifth novel, HEAT AND LIGHT-- about the fracking boom in western Pennsylvania -- will be published by Ecco in May, 2016.

Jennifer Haigh; A roadside memorial for Aubrey McClendon at the site of his fatal automobile accident in Oklahoma City. (Rob Arnold/Reuters/Heide Brandes/Salon)

The unexplained death of “fracking king” Aubrey McClendon and a writer’s peculiar bereavement

Jennifer Haigh
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“Poor people lose”: “Making a Murderer,” reality television and our shared mythology of a classless society

Jennifer Haigh