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Boxers and Bluesmen: Revivalists from the Rust Belt
November 12, 2002
Carlo Rotella professor, Boston College, 2004 PEN Award

Boston College English professor Carlo Rotella discusses his book Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt, an exploration of cultural change in the working-class heart of the northeast and midwest. Visiting women boxers in Erie, bluesmen in Chicago, cops and crime writers in New York, and urban revivalists in Brockton, Rotella uncovers "what has been lost and gained in the long, slow aging-out of the industrial city."

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