In no particular order, here are the authors and titles for Rust Belt Chic: The Cleveland Anthology:
Jim Rokakis, “Ward 6: Coming of Age As A Councilman”
Connie Schultz, “Rust Belt Dreams”
Mark Tebeau, “Lessons from ‘Industrial Tourism’”
Jim Russell, “Revenge of the Pittsburgh Potty and the History of Rust Belt Chic”
Anne Trubek, “Hart Crane, Poet and Park”
Richey Piiparinen, “Hunting for Gain In a City of Loss”
Images of Cleveland by Garie Waltzer and Bob Perkoski
Michael Ruhlman, “Unstoppable Houses on Changeless Terrain”
Kristin Ohlson, “Drinks on the River”
Jacqueline Marino, “A Comforting Kind of Shame”
Ted Sikora, from Apama
Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs, “South Euclid, Then And Now”
Clare Malone, “Little Italy’s Shabby Chic”
Denise Grollmus, “Speak in Tongues”
Noreen Malone, “Letting Go of the Stats”
Rebecca Meiser, “A Cove in Collinwood”
Stephanie Gautam, “One That Denver Finally Lost”
Erick Trickey, “Harvey Pekar’s Nagging Muse”
Philip Turner, “Remembering Mr. Stress, Live at the Euclid Tavern”
Elizabeth Weinstein, “Jane Scott’s Rust Belt Values”
Chris Wise, “Yes Hardcore”
David Giffels, “The Lake Effect”
Kevin Hoffman, “Strange Love, or How We Stopped Bitching and Learned To Love Cleveland”
Laura Putre, “The Tiny Record Empire in Cleveland”
Philip Metres, “A Cleveland of the Mind: Or, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a City
Susan Grimm, “No Bullet Points Or I Remember Cleveland”
Erin O’Brien, “Slavic Village Deli”
Dave Lucas, “Midst of a Burning Fiery Furnace”
Dave Lucas, “River on Fire”
Mansfield Frazier, “A Vineyard in Hough”
Jonathan Wehner, “Love Letter To Winter”
Mandy Metcalf, “Rockefeller and Rust Belt Romance”
Laura Maylene Walter, “Crossing the Ohio Border”
Joslyn Grostic, “A Cleveland Nationalist Comes of Age”
Eric Anderson, “Pretty Things To Hang on the Wall”
Huda Al-Marashi, “Cleveland’s Little Iraq”
Nicole Hennessy, “ Dangerous Poets”
Alissa Nutting, “A (Really Nice) Drink for the Working Man”
Claire McMillan, “The Seriousness of Vintage”
Annie Zaleski, “There’s Always Next Year”
Pete Beatty, Pilgrim’s Progress”
Christine Borne, “Toward A Literature of the Rust Belt”
David C. Barnett, “Tales of the Regional Art Terrorists”
Doug Trattner, “How We Arrived At Braised Beef Cheek Pierogis”
Roldo Bartimole, “Pray For Cleveland: Reflections on an Investigative Reporter”
Douglas Max Utter, “Randall Tiedman: Genius Loci”
Joe Baur, “Why I Am Not A Boomerang”
Lee Chilcote, “The Long, Slow Walk of Detroit Shoreway”
Sean Decatur, “When The Number 9 Bus Was Like Home, and Downtown Was My Playground”
Jimi Izrael, “Not A Love Letter”