Detroit is a city of fist-pumping, all-caps slogans. A hashtag for your Instagram, a bumper sticker for your Ford: NOTHING STOPS DETROIT. DETROIT HUSTLES HARDER. BELIEVE THERE IS GOOD IN DETROIT.
I abandoned Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl shortly after it came out in 2012. Around 50 pages in, I started wondering: What were people seeing in it?
Just before 5pm on Sun., May 31, Seattle-based singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile looked out at the large, energetic and sweaty crowd from her perch, front and center on the Nelsonville Music Festival’s Main Stage...
Angela Flournoy’s debut novel The Turner House was published this spring and has met with much acclaim, becoming a May 2015 Indie Next pick and garnering a stellar review in the New York Times.
I had a literary agent when I was 23. My agent represented John Knowles, Garrison Keillor and me, among others. The agency had even handled Churchill.
After an hour-long drive, Doug Suiter is sitting at high stool at The Machine Shop in Flint, Michigan, one hand on his knee and the other wrapped around a sixteen-ounce can of Bud Light, waiting to see if Whitey Morgan is the real deal.
Harvey & Me is written by Anne Elizabeth Moore and drawn by Melissa Mendes. This installment "Pulling Lynda Barry's Leg"
Pittsburgh is changing. I don’t know if it’s for the better or for the worse. I once worked for the USW ... as a camera-man for their secretly-funded protest of Chinese goods.
OK Buffalo. It’s time to start talking. We need your stories, your passion, your art, your energy, your words. Belt Publishing has published four successful anthologies about Rust Belt cities since 2012 ...
Jon Fine is a longtime business writer currently serving as executive editor of Inc. magazine, a James Beard-award winning food and wine writer, and the former guitarist for such barely-known bands as Bitch Magnet, Vineland, and Coptic Light.
You are invited to share your Akron story by submitting it to Belt Magazine's 6th city-based collection of essays, The Akron Anthology, to be published in 2016.
Cleveland's Roxy Burlesque Theater first opened its doors in 1931 on E. 9th Street, showcasing such risque performers as Blaze Starr, Irma the Body, and Tempest Storm -- to name just a few.