Litro : The Detroit Issue

While Litro Magazine Editor Eric Akoto claims he won’t attempt to give a full understanding of the history of Detroit that led it to becoming “the symbol of the American urban crisis,” his introduction to Litro #143: Detroit does a pretty darn good job. More importantly, this issue’s content focuses on the “hope for this once great city to rise again and rebuild itself.”

Content includes fiction by Dorene O’Brien, “Way Past Taggin’,” which takes readers inside the sub-culture of Detroit’s graffiti artists, and Patricia Abbott’s dark and gruesome story “On Belle Isle” about a photographer obsessed with photographing images of dead corpses. Amy Kaherl, one of the founding members of Detroit Soup, writes about her Detroit and its community in “A Community through Dialogue.” A Q&A with Detroit photographer Amy Sacka explores her project “Lost and Found in Detroit,” a photo series that began as a 365-day photo essay, where she literally took a photo a day, and has now extended to “The next 500 days.” The issues closes with Bram Stoker Award and Locus Award winner Kathe Koja, who considers Detroit’s new status in “The Limbo District.”

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