Rust Belt Chicago
An Anthology
Published on 1. May 2024
233 pages
978-0-9977743-8-2 (ISBN)
Description
"A lively grab bag of essays, fiction and poetry that reads at times like a who's who of contemporary Chicago writers/residents"
(
Chicago Tribune).
Chicago is a city built on meat, railroads, and steel, on opportunity and exploitation. But its identity has long involved so much more than manufacturing. Today, the city continues to lure new residents from around the world, and from across a region rocked by recession and deindustrialization.
Rust Belt Chicago collects essays, fiction, and poetry from more than fifty writers who speak directly to the concerns the city shares with the Midwest at large, and the elements that set it apart. With contributions from writers like Aleksandar Hemon, Kathleen Rooney, and Zoe Zolbrod, here you'll find stories about:
- Buying Bread on Devon Street
- The Cantinas of Pilsen
- Bike commutes through the North Side
- Adventures on the El.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: Beyond the Belt - Martha Bayne
- CITY OF MOVEMENT
- Chicagoland - Sonya Huber
- POETRY: LaSalle Wrote It Down Wrong, 1687 - Kevin Coval
- POETRY: A Skillet of Suns and Oceans - Iris Orpi
- Notes on Summer (Or, Black Girlhood Is a Thing) - Britt Julious
- How to Buy Bread on Devon - Kelly O'Connor McNees
- Elsewhere in a Flash - Kelly Hogan
- Rust Never Keeps: Notes From the Detroit Diaspora - Rob Miller
- The Last City I Loved: Chicago - Zoe Zolbrod
- FICTION: The Book of Poems by the Lost Birds of Union Station - Andrew Hertzberg
- THE BUILT CITY
- It Is Not Waste All This, Not Placed Here in Disgust, Street after Street - Kathleen Rooney
- POETRY: Locative - Andrew Cantrell
- Where 0 Is State Street - Claire Tighe
- POETRY: Database - Rachel Z. Arndt
- POETRY: Chicago by Water - Carol Gloor
- Beyond the Michigan Sea - Garin Cycholl
- Spectral Shorelines - Chloe Taft
- Cycling - Scott Wilson
- POETRY: Mornings with Sarah Jindra - Eileen Favorite
- POETRY: U.S. 41 - Sandra Marchetti
- THE DIVIDED CITY
- North Sider, South Sider, Bi-Sider - Bill Savage
- 1964 Red Buick - Elaine Hegwood Bowen
- POETRY: seven years - Quraysh Ali Lansana
- Fun Town: Chicago's Last Amusement Park - Jake Austen
- POETRY: Rogers Park Botanica - David Mathews
- All Sales Final - Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin
- The Pantry - Michael A. Van Kerckhove
- FICTION: Ballast - Christine Rice
- SPORTS BREAK
- Hard Hat, Lunch Pail: The Myth of Toughness in Chicago Sports - David Isaacson
- POETRY: Disco Demolition, July 12, 1979 - Kevin Coval
- The Carnival - Paul Dailing
- Sixth City - Paul Durica
- THE CONFLICTED CITY
- Victory Auto Wreckers, Moo & Oink, and the Free Wilson Basketball - Robert Dean
- The Sediment of Fear - Toni Nealie
- POETRY: Four Poems - Raymond Berry
- POETRY: Ida B. Wells Testifies in the Ghost Town, 1995-2011 in the rubble of the Ida B. Wells homes - Kevin Coval
- Cotton Cobwebs: Hauntology and History at Stateville, Statesville, and Cook County Jail - Logan Breitbart
- How to Win Reparations - Yana Kunichoff and Sarah Macaraeg
- FICTION: Sorry Shit Sucks - Wyl Villacres
- THE LIVING CITY
- For Girls Who Straddle Seasons - Ola Faleti
- The Urban Rural - Linda Garcia Merchant
- POETRY: Thorndale in February - Jacqui Zeng
- Slow Burn: Water, Oil, and Volcanoes in Indiana's Rust Belt - Ava Tomasula y Garcia
- Prairie Water, Lake Sky - Gretchen Lida
- Chicago Water Taxi: Romancing the River - Dina Elenbogen
- POETRY: Late Storm on Lake Michigan - Laura Passin
- CITY OF MIGRANTS
- Illiana: Life on a Rust Belt Border - Gretchen Kalwinski
- Not From Around Here - Gina Watters
- Beneath the Willow Tree: The Early Death and Immortal Life of Linda Parker - Mark Guarino
- Last Call: El Trebol and the Cantinas of Pilsen - Kari Lydersen
- Chicago Notebook - Ryan Schnurr
- POETRY: The City Hasn't Killed Everything - Sharon Dornberg-Lee
- Chiasmus: A Narrative of Ascent - Rayshauna Gray
- Wherever - Naomi Huffman
- CODA: Reasons Why I Do Not Wish to Leave Chicago: An Incomplete, Random List - Aleksandar Hemon
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
