Almanac 2013 (Rust Belt Rising, #1) by Linda Gallant


Almanac 2013 (Rust Belt Rising, #1)
Title : Almanac 2013 (Rust Belt Rising, #1)
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ISBN : 098931250X
ISBN-10 : 9780989312509
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 168
Publication : First published January 1, 2013

The Rust Belt Rising Almanac is a collection of snapshots and stories from writers and artists in America's Rust Belt cities published by The Head & The Hand Press in Philadelphia. In our first volume, you, Courteous Reader, will read about escapes, remains, and models of growth. You'll green your thumb with an industrial soil-strength planting guide, find a road map for wandering, and learn about projects that are working (and people who aren't). Our almanac may not serve as a strictly meteorological or agricultural guide, but we hope it will help to measure the kind of atmospheric pressure felt between jobs, between communities, between the friends who are still here and the ones not so lucky, bound together by a common question: what's next for the Rust Belt?

Almanac 2013 (Rust Belt Rising, #1) Reviews

  • Jeff

    Like any anthology, there were pieces that I downright loved and pieces that I thought fell quite far under par of the overall project, but in total, the Almanac was a brilliantly constructed insight into post-industrial America, particularly concerning the East Coast (as the publisher, most writers, and focus seems to be on Philadelphia). Despite the regional roots, the book highlights a fundamental aspect of Americana: its blue-collar past converted into a present day destitution mixed with progressive promise. It simultaneously shows the horrors of urban poverty and entrepreneurial intuitiveness that hope to spring the metropolitan areas of squalor and disrepair into modern, livable homes for the arts and intellect.

    Being from Philly, I had the constant quivers of acknowledgement concerning both the troubling realities of my home as well as the things that make me most proud. For outsiders, I believe there is worth and good writing here to invigorate foreign audiences and lore them to our rusty beauty.

  • Callie R.

    In a word: haunting.