Culture
Stories from the Rust Belt, for the Rust Belt
“I think it’s important for these writers to say, ‘Look, your creativity, your writing, your research, your journalism, matters just as much in Pittsburgh as it does in New York and D.C.”
In 2012, Anne Trubek decided to compile a book of essays about Cleveland, the city where she has lived for the past 20 years. “It was planned to be a one-off endeavor for me,” Trubek said, but the book really touched a nerve.
The Cleveland book was so successful that by the following year it had given rise to Belt Magazine, an online publication dedicated to highlighting voices from the Rust Belt and Midwest, as well as Belt Publishing, whose project is the same.