Introducing the Pittsburgh Review of Books
Belt Magazine Becomes Rust Belt Magazine While Getting a New Publishing Partner.
Belt’s Top Stories of 2024
Articles about Ohio protesters pushing the Klan out of their community to the founding of Ebony Magazine, the sulphury flames beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania and the radioactive waste buried in Bridgeton, Missouri, the wooden skyscrapers of Wisconsin and the Frank Lloyd Wright trail in that same state, actress Colleen Moore's magical fairytale castle delighting generations of Chicagoans and discovering Northern Appalachian literature. Along the way, we picked some fresh apples and enjoyed the Appalachian delicacy of the pawpaw.
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Carnegie Mellon’s Demarest Metals
Few exhibitions would be more appropriate for me to walk past on my way to work than the Demarest Metals, a reminder that Belt Magazine is grounded in the history – and the future – of this region, that labor deserves to be honored, that there are complicated, beautiful, and essential stories being written about and by people in areas too often passed over.
15 Summer Reads for Our Vacation
Fifteen of our favorites for our summer hiatus.
Belt’s Top Stories of 2023
When trying to describe what exactly I envision the magazine to be, I often joke with people that I aspire for Belt to be The New Yorker of the Rust Belt (except that I’m not really joking).
Belt Summer Reads ’23
Some of our favorite reads from this past year.
Tenth Anniversary of Belt Magazine
An evening of writerly expression at White Whale.
Theorizing the Rust Belt
The mark of a brilliant idea, I would argue, is how jealous it makes you feel when you first learn about it. By that criterion, I was incredibly jealous of the organizers of the Rust Belt Humanities Lab.
Come Celebrate Our 10th Anniversary!
A special in-person reading to celebrate Belt's Tenth Anniversary!
Belt’s Top Stories of 2022
By Ed Simon This year, Belt Magazine has ranged over quite a lot of topics – the corner stores of [...]
Belt’s 2022 Fall Fund Drive!
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