DETROIT CITY IS THE PLACE TO BE

Once Americas capitalist dream town, Detroit is our countrys greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest al l have been drawn to Detroits baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose frontier.With an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radi cally new, Detroit-area native Mark Binelli has chronicled this convergence. Sharp and impassioned, Detroit City Is the Place to Be is alive with the sense of possibility that comes when a city hits rock bottom. Binelli does not shy away from exploring the violenc e, economic ...[Read more]