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By Elizabeth Catte What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia is a frank assessment of America’s recent fascination with the people and problems of the region. Catte analyzes trends in contemporary writing on...
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By Daniel Kay HertzOctober 2018 In the years just after World War Two, a familiar story was just beginning: once-booming cities had started to shrink. Historic neighborhoods in Detroit, St. Louis,...
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"Required reading. ... Reinforces what an amazing and interesting place [Chicago] is, filled with talented writers and artists who contributed to the book. But it also requires the reader to see...
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By Matt Stansberry with Illustrations by David WilsonOctober 30, 2018 A young bear--The Fool--is cast off from its mother in the spring to wander a fragmented suburban forest, to be...
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By Amanda Kolson Hurley April 9, 2019 America’s suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for. Today’s suburbs are racially, ethnically, and economically diverse, with as many...
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Edited by Dan Crissman, Cartography by Evan Tachovsky & David WilsonOctober 15, 2019 There are thousands of ways to map a city. Roads and bridges help you navigate the twists and...
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One of "28 books you should read right now." -- Chicago Tribune fall literary preview "A vital collection of essays." -- Curbed, "101 Books About Where and How We Live" "A...
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Edited by Elizabeth Catte, Emily Hilliard, and Jessica Salfia In February 2018, West Virginia public school teachers had had enough. With some of the lowest salaries in the country and facing drastic...
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Edited by Ryan Schuessler June 4, 2019 St. Louis is undoubtedly fragmented, physically so in that the city is dissected by rivers, highways, walls, and fences; but also in a...
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Edited by Justin Kern April 9, 2019 The Milwaukee Anthology is a book on hope and hurt in one of America's toughest ZIP codes. In these pages are the stories...
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Edited by Martha Bayne Chicago is built on a foundation of meat and railroads and steel, but its identity long ago stretched past manufacturing. A city of opportunity from the...
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by Edward McClelland, with illustrations by David Wilson America’s first superheroes lived in the Midwest. There was Nanabozho, the Ojibway man-god who conquered the King of Fish, took control of...
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Edited by Martha Bayne Much has been made of the 2016 electoral flip of traditionally Democratic states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Ohio to tip Donald Trump into the presidency....
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"A sharp coming-of-age portrait." -- Kirkus Reviews Raechel Anne Jolie March 10, 2020 Hardcover; 150 pages; 5" x 7"ISBN: 978-1948742634 Raechel Anne Jolie’s early life in a working-class Cleveland exurb was full of race...
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By Edward McClelland Find out what Midwesterners say as well as how and why they say it. In this book on Midwestern speech and slang, McClelland examines the causes of the...
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Edited by Frank Bures May 7, 2019 In recent years, Minneapolis has become a literary powerhouse. In Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology, we collect some of the most exciting work...
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"Chicago-based mental health clinician Foiles looks at the many ways in which urban poverty, crime, violence, and other socio-economic factors can destroy a life. ... An urgent call for reform...
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Edited by Eric Boyd Pittsburgh is ever-changing—once dusted with soot from the mills, parts of the city now gleam with the polish of new technologies and little remains of what...
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Edited by Richey Piiparinen and Anne Trubek Now in its second edition, with a new introduction by Dave Lucas, The Cleveland Anthology collects stories by and for residents of the city Belt calls...
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By Ryan Schnurr The Maumee River Basin is the largest watershed in the Great Lakes region, collecting runoff from more than 6,600 square miles in Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan and...
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By Mark Meyer and Meredith Meyer Grelli The Whiskey Rebellion and the Rebirth of Rye takes readers on a tour of the spirit’s founding, floundering, and current flourishing. Authors Mark Meyer...
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By Randy Cunningham Originally published in 2007 by Arambala Press, this important work is being reprinted by Belt Publishing for a new generation of activists, planners, urbanists, and organizers. Democratizing...
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With a new introduction by John Lingan Hugh McVey moves from Missouri to the agrarian town of Bidwell, Ohio. He invents a mechanical cabbage planter to ease the burden of...
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With an introduction by Elizabeth Catte October 2018 Cleveland oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller formed the Standard Oil Company of Ohio in 1870. Over the next four decades, Rockefeller turned his company...
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By Phil Christman April 7, 2020 978-1-948742-61-0 What does the future hold for the Midwest? A vast stretch of fertile farmland bordering one of the largest concentrations of fresh water in the world, the Midwestern US seems ideally...
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Edited by the Staff of Belt Magazine The Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook includes 26 essays on the enclaves that make the city hum, including Tremont, Hough, Ohio City, Old Brooklyn, Glenville,...
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By the Elsinore Bennu Think Tank for Restorative JusticeSeptember 10, 2019 Life Sentences: Writings from Inside an American Prison is a collection of poetry and prose by six incarcerated men,...
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Edited by Zan McQuade This anthology brings together some of Cincinnati’s most notable residents, native sons and daughters, creatives, and contemplators to tell tales of a city’s triumphs and tribulations through...
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Edited by Aaron Foley Detroiters need to get to know their neighbors better. Wait — maybe that should be, Detroiters should get to know their neighborhoods better. It seems like...
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By Mark Athitakis In the public imagination, Midwestern literature hasn’t evolved far beyond heartland laborers and hardscrabble immigrants of a century past. But as the region has changed, so, in many...
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Edited by Jody K. Biehl Buffalo is a magical place to be and this anthology walks the reader through the decades. The newness of the city is electrifying and sits atop...
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With a new introduction by Brianne Jaquette Main-Travelled Roads collects 11 short stories, originally published in 1891, set in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, or what Hamlin Garland called the “Middle Border.” Depicting an...
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By Aaron Foley October 1, 2018 Are you moving to Detroit because your rent is too high? Did you read somewhere that all you needed to buy a house was...
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By William Dean HowellsMarch 26, 2019 Nicknamed the "Dean of American Letters," William Dean Howells was a remarkable literary figure. A novelist, critic, and playwright, he forged friendships with luminaries...
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Edited by Jacqueline Marino and Will Miller The Youngstown story often is told with a beginning in iron and steel and ending in decay with a subplot driven by violent...
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Edited by Anna Clark A unique perspective on the Motor City, this anthology combines stories told by both longtime residents and newcomers from activists to teachers to artists to students....
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Edited by Jason Segedy The Akron Anthology is a collection of essays by Akron writers about life in the Rubber City. Edited by Jason Segedy, with an introduction by David Giffels, the...
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Buy our popular tarot deck with Rust Belt Arcana. The tarot deck contains 78 watercolor prints by David Wilson (co-author and illustrator of Rust Belt Arcana). Cards are standard tarot size...
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By Anne TrubekJune 16, 2020Paperback5" x 7"ISBN: 978-1948742665 Anne Trubek wrote several books, was a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and was a tenured English professor before she decided...
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By Clare Winger HarrisMarch 26, 2019 A collection of classic and previously unpublished stories from an influential female voice in science fiction Science fiction has historically been seen as a...
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Edited by Scott Atkinson A collection of essays and personal narratives, the book captures a confounding, contradictory city, proving that Flint is far more than the common narrative of an industrial...
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Vivian Gibson April 20, 2020 Vivian Gibson grew up in Mill Creek, a neighborhood of St. Louis razed in 1959 to build a highway. Her family, friends, church community, and...
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Chicago is the buckle of there Rust Belt, and a city with more stories than any one press can possibly tell. But that's not for lack of trying! Here, we've bundled four of...
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Edited by Amanda Page Spring 2020, in partnership with The Ohio State University Press Although Columbus is the capital city of the state of Ohio, it does not live in the...
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By Willa Cather October 29, 2019 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, One of Ours is the story of Claude Wheeler, the son of a Nebraska farmer. As a young man,...
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Edited by Dani Vilella and Ashley Nickels While Grand Rapids is known for large-scale events like ArtPrize; major businesses like Meijer, Steelcase, and Amway and the philanthropic and political contributions...
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By Charles W. Chesnutt With an introduction by Wiley CashMarch 26, 2019 The landmark turn-of-the-century novel of racial strife in the post-Reconstruction South by an acclaimed African-American writer. On November...
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With a new introduction by Ruth GrahamOctober 2018 First published in 1896, The Damnation of Theron Ware follows a young Methodist minister who comes to a small, upstate New York town to spread...
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Want to receive every title we publish as soon as we get it from the printer? Of course you do! Monthly shipments will also from time to time include extras (a T-shirt, a...
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By Lincoln Steffens With an introduction by Daniel Kay HertzOctober 29, 2019 Lincoln Steffens’ “Tweed Days in St. Louis,” published in McClure’s magazine in October 1902, is considered the first work of...
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By Danny Caine and Tara Wray March 3, 2020 El Dorado Freddy's may be the first book of fast food poetry. In "Olive Garden," "Culver's," "Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen," "Cracker Barrel,"...
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Love Ohio? Get yourself a bundle of Ohio reading from around the state with, yup, you guessed it, our Ohio Bundle! You’ll get The Cincinnati Anthology, The Cleveland Anthology, Car...
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June 2, 2020edited by Jacqueline Marino When Car Bombs to Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology was published in 2015, it sold out its first two printings within months. The essays, poems, and photos...
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Purchase all of our gorgeous, award-winning reissues of Midwestern classics, with new introductions by Elizabeth Catte, Wiley Cash, Rebecca Onion and others. You'll have the prettiest, smartest book shelf in...
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By Jennifer Howard October 6, 2020 “I’m sitting on the floor in my mother’s house, surrounded by stuff.” So begins Jennifer Howard’s Clutter, an expansive assessment of our relationship to...
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Are you Belt-curious, but don't know where to begin? Get with the program -- or turn on a friend -- with our handy Belt Publishing starter box. This gift collection contains: One...
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What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia 55 Strong: Inside the West Virginia Teachers’ Strike
