Rust Belt Chicago - (Belt City Anthologies) by Martha Bayne (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A part of Belt's City Anthology Series. "A lively grab bag of essays, fiction and poetry that reads at times like a who's who of contemporary Chicago writers/residents."--<i>The Chicago Tribune</i> </b></p><p>Chicago is a city built on meat, railroads, and steel, on opportunity and exploitation. But its identity has long involved so much more than manufacturing. Today, the city continues to lure new residents from around the world, and from across a region rocked by recession and deindustrialization.</p><p>The problems that plague the region don't disappear once you pass the Indiana border, though. In fact, they're often amplified. And Chicago is a complicated city because of that, defined by movement that's the anchor of the Midwest, but bound to its neighbors by a shared ecosystem and economy.</p><p><i>Rust Belt Chicago</i> collects essays, fiction, and poetry from more than fifty writers who speak directly to the concerns the city shares with the region at large, and the elements that set it apart. With contributions from writers like Aleksandar Hemon, Kathleen Rooney, and Zoe Zolbrod, and here you'll find stories about: </p><p>- Buying Bread on Devon Street</p><p>- The Cantinas of Pilsen</p><p>- Bike commutes through the North Side</p><p>- Adventures on the El.</p><p>Writing with affection, frustration, anger, and joy, the writers in this collection capture all the harmony and dissonance that define one cacophonous place. </p><p>A wide-ranging insider's look at one of the world's most iconic cities.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Within this collection of poems and prose lies a collection of voices and lives and pasts and presents. As told by those who run through Chicago's veins and beat with its heart, the lens of the industrial Rust Belt pops this book's blue collar, oozing working-class adoration and experience. -- Chicago summer book recommendation, American Writers Museum<br><br>"A lively grab bag of essays, fiction and poetry that reads at times like who's who of contemporary Chicago writers/residents." Chris Borrelli, Chicago Tribune<br><br>"One of the best books to come across my desk that I can frankly remember." Rick Kogan, WGN Radio<br><br>"Writers like Stuart Dybek, Studs Terkel, Sandra Cisneros, Nelson Algren and Gwendolyn Brooks start to make up the city's canon. They are required reading for every Chicagoan. But Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology, the neighborhood cookbook taking the pulse of post-industrial Chicago right now seems like required reading as well." Emma Terhaar, Third Coast Review<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Martha Bayne</b> is a Chicago writer and a senior editor with Belt Publishing. Her work has appeared in publications such as <i>The Baffler</i>, <i>Chicago Reader</i>, <i>Latterly</i>, <i>The Rumpus</i>, and <i>Belt Magazine</i>.
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