![]() Documentary filmmakers and urban explorers find Detroit’s crumbling infrastructure and architecture irresistible-giving rise to the term “ruin porn.” And a seemingly endless succession of books promise to analyze and examine the city and its problems.īut few of the new Detroit books are likely to chronicle the author’s own arrest and brief jailing, a robbery attempt that forced him to pull a gun and piss himself out of fear, domestic problems with his wife, his beloved streetwalker sister’s death (followed by her daughter’s fatal drug overdose), and an addled female city councilwoman squeezing his testicles in a bar, all interspersed with tales of corrupt politicians, arson, murder, and the front-line public safety workers and everyday citizens who won’t or can’t leave the city. ![]() National news outlets are continually fascinated by the city and its renaissance efforts. In recent years, a journalistic cottage industry has emerged around the collapse of once-vibrant Detroit, the implosion of the domestic automotive industry, and the stark racial divide that looms over everything in the city. ![]()
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