Introducing the Pittsburgh Review of Books
Belt Magazine Becomes Rust Belt Magazine While Getting a New Publishing Partner.
Belt Magazine Becomes Rust Belt Magazine While Getting a New Publishing Partner.
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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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.
Fifteen of our favorites for our summer hiatus.
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).
Some of our favorite reads from this past year.
An evening of writerly expression at White Whale.
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.
A special in-person reading to celebrate Belt's Tenth Anniversary!
By Ed Simon This year, Belt Magazine has ranged over quite a lot of topics – the corner stores of [...]
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