Voices from the Rust Belt
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But the region is neither monolithic nor easily understood. The truth is much more nuanced. Voices From the Rust Belt pulls together a distinct variety of voices from people who call the region home. Voices that emerge from familiar Rust Belt cities-Detroit, Cleveland, Flint, and Buffalo, among others-and observe, with grace and sensitivity, the changing economic and cultural realities for generations of Americans.
The anthology is a collection of the best non-fiction essays published in Belt Magazine, a critically-acclaimed regional magazine, and has been artfully put together by publisher and founder Anne Trubek.
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"Introduction: Why the Rust Belt Matters (and What It Is)" by Anne Trubek
GROWING UP
"A Girl's Youngstown" by Jacqueline Marino
"The Kidnapped Children of Detroit" by Marsha Music
"Busing, a White Girl's Tale" by Amanda Shaffer
"Moundsville" by David Faulk
"North Park, With and Without Hate" by Jeff Z. Klein
"Love and Survival: A Flint Romance" by Layla Meillier
DAY TO DAY IN THE RUST BELT
"A Middle-Aged Student's Guide to Social Work" by Dave Newman
"Fresh to Death" by Eric Woodyard
"Rust Belt Heroin Chic" by Ben Gwin
"Will Blacks Rise or Be Forgotten in the New Buffalo?" by Henry Louis Taylor Jr.
"Can Detroit Save White People?" by Aaron Foley
"Cleveland's Little Iraq" by Huda Al-Marashi
GEOGRAPHY OF THE HEARTLAND
"A Night at the Golden Lion Lounge" by John Lloyd Clayton
"Family Bones" by Ryan Schnurr
"The Fauxtopias of Detroit's Suburbs" by James D. Griffioen
"Pretty Things to Hang on the Wall" by Eric Anderson
"King Coal and the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum" by Carolyne Whelan
"Seed or Weed: On the Evolution of Chicago's Bloomingdale Trail" by Martha Bayne
"This Is a Place" by Kathryn M. Flinn
"That Better Place; or, the Problem with Mobility" by G. M. Donley
LEAVING AND STAYING
"Losing Lakewood" by Sally Errico
"Notes from the Expatriate Underground" by Margaret Sullivan
"Confessions of a Rust Belt Orphan; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Akron" by Jason Segedy
"Bathtime" by Connor Coyne
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