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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS Advance Praise for The Orbit Magazine Anthology In Detroit in the nineties, you either read the alternative weekly or you read the alternative alternative weekly, which was Orbit. What George Clinton was to “ Motown, what the Stooges were to the Rolling Stones, Orbit was to that Other Magazine. I love this anthology! Which also doubles as a fascinating secret history of Motor City punk. —Mark Binelli, author of Detroit City Is the Place To Be ” Rob St. Mary’s carefully researched look at Orbit and its roots in the Detroit punk scene takes you on a wild ride through the rude, riotous underbelly of local journalism in the “ 1980s and ’90s. —Susan Whitall, former Creem editor, Detroit News feature writer, and author of Fever, ” Little Willie John: A Fast Life, Mysterious Death and the Birth of Soul Rob St. Mary knows how to have a good time—plunge into the high life of fun-seekers, artists, ne’er-do-wells, and cult favorites, with a journalist’s precision and a bright pinch “ of eastside Detroit salt. Let him take you into Orbit! —Kathe Koja, author of The Bastards’ Paradise, The Mercury Waltz, Under the Poppy, ” and several others When Detroit’s leaders get around to carving the Motor City’s Mt. Rushmore, Jerry Vile should occupy Washington’s spot.The Orbit Magazine Anthology is a compendium of Vile’s two-decade publishing legacy, from the paste-up White Noise music fanzine “ through the fully developed, hilariously ridiculous Orbit. Vile’s work was disruptive yet sincere in a city that needed such elements in the latter part of the twentieth century. Vile both feted and lampooned locals who deserved it and did it with a disarming, half- ass style that made you unaware of the genius in his journalistic terrorism. —Steve Miller, author of Detroit Rock City: The Uncensored History of Rock 'n’ Roll in ” America's Loudest City Named for Michigan’s state reptile, Painted Turtle is a regional general- PAINTED TURTLE interest trade imprint from Wayne State University Press. Wayne State University Press / The Leonard N. Simons Building / 4809 Woodward Avenue / Detroit, Michigan 48201-1309 wsupress.wayne.edu.

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