Saturday, May 3, 2008

Why Detroit. . .

. . . NEEDS ITS OWN PUBLISHING INDUSTRY.

In downtown Detroit, a working class city with a collapsed educational system, at Borders bookstore in the Compuware building has stood for a week near the entrance a large display called "The Clique," for stacks of New York-produced books which celebrate not the values of Detroit, but of caste-based Manhattan, a city of extreme wealth, snobbery, and unprecedented inequality.

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