Angels of Detroit by Christopher Hebert: A Q&A
By Kelsey Ronan Detroit is a city of contradictions. It’s a city stricken by poverty and population loss, of [...]
Coming this Fall: The Akron Anthology
Between 1910 and 1920, Akron, Ohio, was the fastest growing city in the United States, tripling in size and [...]
Before It Was Hingetown
Hingetown was born as a branding exercise in 2013 on the warm corpse of Cleveland’s queer scene. Anchored by the brick Striebinger block at West 29th and Detroit Shoreway, and extending down West 25th...
Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook Launch Party
On Wednesday, June 22, we're hosting a launch party for The Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook! You should come. Seriously! Starting at [...]
Stories from Nowhere, Michigan: An Interview With Christine Rice
In her debut novel Swarm Theory, Chicago writer Christine Rice reimagines a landscape from her past, a mash-up of disintegrating farmland and emerging suburb that most Midwesterners will instantly recognize...
Roger Ebert And The Multicultural Passkey Of The Midwest
Shortly after he graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1964, Roger Ebert left his native Urbana for a yearlong postgrad fellowship in Cape Town, South Africa.
Belt Books at Chicago’s Printers Row Lit Fest, the Cleveland Flea, and more
Publishing is a funny business. Here we are, with a warehouse full of books, ready to sell them to you. But doing [...]
Happy Anyway: A Flint Anthology
I had just started writing about Flint when I found myself sitting next to Michael Moore, listening to him talk about what Flint had to offer the world.
Writing from the Borderlands
Clickbait is easy: just ask people to weigh in on stuff they have strong opinions about but will never agree on. Politics: clickbait gold. Red-carpet sartorial choices: those too.
An Interview with Matthew Desmond
One-third. For more than 100 years that’s been the standard measure for figuring housing costs in the United States: you should pay no more than one-third of your income in rent or mortgage payments.
The Jungle Is A Terrible Novel – So Why Does It Still Work?
Some time back, two friends gave my wife and I a housewarming present: a copy of Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel, The Jungle. Not the sunniest way to help a couple settle into a new house, but it’s a thoughtful gift if you know us.
Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook
Belt Publishing is excited to present the Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook, coming in May 2016.