Cincinnatus
When we set about assembling The Cincinnati Anthology, we were looking for all different impressions of the city: the loving, the brutal, and the honest.
Doomed to Pittsburgh: W. Eugene Smith in the City of Steel
Eugene Smith arrived in Pittsburgh in March 1955, a man hellbent on salvation. He had recently resigned as a staff photographer at Life, protesting what he considered the magazine’s botched layout of his photo essay ...
Reading the Midwest: Mike Royko
By Mark Athitakis Old newspaper habits die hard. Across the country, papers still retain a local news columnist – Mitch [...]
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.
SGS Presents: Behind The Sign, Episode #2
At first glance, West 65th Street, between Clark and Denison, tells a story of neglect. There were once kill plants and cattle yards, then came a box store and strip retail that supplied landfills with furry plastic and leisurewear;
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.
Charles Baxter: An Interview (Full Length)
By Jon Lauck The short stories in Charles Baxter’s forthcoming book There’s Something I Want You to Do (Pantheon), which [...]
Islands of Lawsons Lost
When I visit Japan, I expect the unfamiliar. I expect to get lost. Yet, not everything in Japan is unfamiliar.
Out of the Kokoon: Cleveland’s Festival of Art and Dance, 1911-1938
Cleveland vies with Seattle for the title of the grayest, most overcast American city, and in the first three decades of the 20th century it was even grayer than it is now.
The Gritty Realism of Genre Artist David Gilmour Blythe
In the 1940’s, a Pittsburgh steel baron named G. David Thompson began collecting the paintings of an obscure 19th century artist, David Gilmour Blythe.