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Index
Table of Contents
Midst of a Burning Fiery Furnace
Introduction
I. Concept
Anorexic Vampires, Cleveland Veins: The Story of Rust Belt Chic
The Revenge of the Pittsburgh Potty
II. Snapshot
Pretty Things to Hang on the Wall
Pilgrim’s Progress
Cleveland’s Little Iraq
Drinks on the River
The Long, Slow Walk of Detroit Shoreway
Slavic Village Deli
Little Italy’s Shabby Chic
III. History
Unstoppable Houses On Changeless Terrain
Tales of the Regional Art Terrorists
Ward 6
Rockefeller and Rust Belt Romance
Pray for Cleveland: Reflections of an Investigative Reporter
Strange Love, or how we stopped bitching and learned to love Cleveland
IV. Growing Up
When the Number 9 Bus Was Like Home, and Downtown Was My Playground
Letting Go of the Stats
The Lake Effect
Not Bullet Points, or I Remember Cleveland
“There’s Always Next Year”
Rust Belt Dreams
Speak In Tongues
V. Conflict
Harvey Pekar’s Nagging Muse
South Euclid, Then and Now
Toward a Literature of the Rust Belt
Dangerous Poets
Not a Love Letter
VI. Music
The Tiny Record Empire in Cleveland
A Cove in Collinwood
Yes, Hardcore
Remembering Mr. Stress, Live at the Euclid Tavern
Jane Scott’s Rust Belt Values
VII. Culture
A (Really Nice) Drink for the Working Man
How We Arrived At Braised Beef Cheek Pierogis
Lessons of Industrial Tourism
Randall Tiedman: Genius Loci
A Cleveland of the Mind: Or, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a City
Love Letter To Winter
The Seriousness of Vintage
VIII. Back Home
Why I Am Not a Boomerang
One that Denver Lost
Crossing the Ohio Border
A Cleveland Nationalist Comes of Age
A Vineyard In Hough
A Comforting Kind of Shame
Hart Crane, Poet and Park
Hunting for Gain in a City of Loss
River on Fire
Acknowledgments
Contributors
About the Editors
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