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This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States. Those ho have been affected by the rust belt go beyond simply those who have grown up these. In a class-based society, people who have never lived anywhere near the rust belt may hold media-inspired attitudes about the Rust Belt and those who live there. We offer fresh exposure those not from the Rust belt, fresh air and news to those from the Rust Belt.
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Writing in a Wind Machine: Do Politicians Obsess over Steel workers?
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There is an article in the New York Times concerning the amount of attention that steel workers are getting. The gist of the essay itself is that far too much attention is being paid to manufacturing and steel worker sin particular by politicians.
The cure is to become something else, get a new job, and leave all the baggage behind. How do we feel about this?
All a writer has is his or her own life and thoughts to write from. Now in addition to disrupting our communities, it sounds as though the columnist and various commenters believe that we all should develop amnesia.How does knowing of the resistance to our visibility affect our writing? And how do we counter this pressure to conform and forget?
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