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  • So You Want to Publish a Book?

    by Anne Trubek ...
    The founder of Belt Publishing demystifies the publishing process, offering some insider how-to advice for aspiring authors.This slim but insightful guide offers concrete, witty advice and information to authors, prospective authors, and those curious about the publishing industry's inner workings. The chapters are chock full of important advice and information, including:· How advances and ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses

    by Anne Trubek ...
    There are many ways to show our devotion to an author besides reading his or her works. Graves make for popular pilgrimage sites, but far more popular are writers' house museums. What is it we hope to accomplish by trekking to the home of a dead author? We may go in search of the point of inspiration, eager to stand on the very spot where our favorite literary characters first came to life—and ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Voices from the Rust Belt

    by Anne Trubek ...
    “Timely . . . [the collection] paints intimate portraits of neglected places that are often used as political talking points. A good companion piece to J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy.”—BooklistThe essays in Voices from the Rust Belt "address segregated schools, rural childhoods, suburban ennui, lead poisoning, opiate addiction, and job loss. They reflect upon happy childhoods, successful community ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting

    by Anne Trubek ...
    "Persuasively argues that our fixation with writing by hand is driven more by emotion than evidence, as it is perceived to be inextricably linked to our history, core values and individual identities."-- Los Angeles TimesThe future of handwriting is anything but certain. Its history, however, shows how much it has affected culture and civilization for millennia.In the digital age of instant ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses

    by Anne Trubek ...
    There are many ways to show our devotion to an author besides reading his or her works. Graves make for popular pilgrimage sites, but far more popular are writers' house museums. What is it we hope to accomplish by trekking to the home of a dead author? We may go in search of the point of inspiration, eager to stand on the very spot where our favorite literary characters first came to life—and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Best of the Rust Belt

    Edited by Anne Trubek ...
    The best personal essays from a contested region, from Belt Publishing's ten years as a press.Many have an opinion on what the Rust Belt is. It's the "blue wall," "Trump country," the "flyover states," or the "real America." Or maybe, as our own president has said, it's a place that no longer exists called by a name that has long outlived its usefulness. But undeniably, there's something that ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Made

    Stories of Work from the WPA

    Edited by Anne Trubek ...
    During the Great Depression, out-of-work writers were hired by the federal government to interview American working-class workers about their jobs. What was it like working in a meatpacking plant in Chicago? To make a living as a Portuguese fisherman in Massachusetts? A farmer in Nebraska? A Polish ironworker building the New York City subway? The result of this project was over 2,000 first person ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cleveland Anthology

    Edited by Richey Piiparinen, Anne Trubek ...
    Series series Belt City Anthologies
    A literary snapshot written by the city's citizens that serves as an intimate reminder "that strength of character abounds in the Cleveland community" ( Freshwater Cleveland).The past few years have been full of stories about Cleveland's ongoing revitalization and renewal, mostly from people from outside the city. This collection of essays, photographs, and poems offers an insiders' view, telling ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stories of Ohio

    by William Dean Howells ...
    Series series Belt Revivals
    This unsung classic of American literature helps shed light on both Ohio and the career of a writer known as the "Dean of American Letters."With a new introduction by Anne TrubekA novelist, critic, and playwright, William Dean Howells was friends with such luminaries as Mark Twain, Henry James, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Though he's best known for his East Coast novels like The Rise of Silas ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Earthly Materials

    Journeys Through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations

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