Business, part of Agency 3: Novellas

Business is a novella about the nightlife of working-class women on the eve of Youngstown, Ohio’s deindustrialization. When the lives of an auto factory worker and trucking motel innkeeper become entwined after a chance encounter at a nightclub, they become agents in each other’s liberation. While the story is fictional, some of the the locations are based on real places, many now demolished. Below are images and newsreels that inspired the settings. All photos are mine unless linked to an outside source. 

 

If you know someone who used to party downtown in the 1970s, I'd love to send them a personalized copy. Click here to contact me for ordering information.

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Press: 

"Valley Native Explores Postindustrial Youngstown in New Novella," Business Journal (2025) 

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