Reading The Midwest: Space Aliens And Police States
In late March, novelist Marilynne Robinson caused a stir after a reading when she casually let slip that she was working on a fourth novel set in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa.
Ballad of a Pencil Junkie
In the old days at The New Yorker, when your pencil point got dull, you just tossed it aside and picked up a new one. There was an office boy who came around in the morning with a tray of freshly sharpened wooden pencils.
Harvey & Me: Uninteresting Phone Call
Harvey & Me, a comic series appearing in Belt about Harvey Pekar, written by Anne Elizabeth Moore and Illustrated by Melissa Mendes. This installment, "Uninteresting Phone Call"
God, Baseball, and the Mystery of the Disappearing Novel: Nancy Willard’s “Things Invisible to See”
In the 1989 film Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner plays Ray Kinsella, an Iowa farmer who plows down a section of his cornfield to build a baseball field that’s soon populated by the ghosts of players past.
Car Bombs To Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology
Rust Belt Chic Press is excited to announce the latest book in our catalog, Car Bombs To Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology edited by Jacqueline Marino & Will Miller.
What Philip Levine’s Work Is
Philip Levine’s father came to the United States from Russia, traveling across the ocean all by himself at age eleven. He grew up in New York City with two older sisters and their families. His path to Detroit was an extraordinary one ...
Harvey & Me: Let’s Just Wait
The first installment of Harvey & Me, a comic series appearing in Belt, written by Anne Elizabeth Moore and Illustrated by Melissa Mendes.
Charles Baxter: An Interview
The short stories in Charles Baxter’s forthcoming book There’s Something I Want You to Do: Stories (Pantheon), which will be released in February 2015, are set in Minneapolis.
Rust Belt, Rusted City: An Interview With Rochelle Hurt
Belt sat down with decorated poet Rochelle Hurt to talk about her recent collection of prose-poetry, The Rusted City, published by Buffalo-based White Pine Press earlier this year.
An Interview With Amy Jo Burns, Author of Cinderland
Amy Jo Burns is the author of Cinderland, a memoir about coming of age in a small town in Western Pennsylvania while carrying the burden of a lie.
“Everything smells like a Polish Fiat that’s been out in the rain too long”: A Q&A With Gary Shteyngart
On October 6 at 7:00 p.m., Gary Shteyngart will be reading from his 2014 memoir, Little Failure, at the Beachwood branch of Cuyahoga County Library. Belt's Editor-in-Chief Anne Trubek talked to Shteyngart ...
Sweeping the Streets: Poetry and Boxing in Pittsburgh
Jimmy Cvetic, also known as “the Dog”, is a boxing trainer, ex-police detective—and prolific poet.