A Peruvian Investor Walks into a Packard Plant: A Guest Post by Mark Binelli

Place is so much more than topography or social fault lines, political history and census data.  Capturing capital-P place – the soul, the machine, the people, the ethos thrumming just below the surface – is one of the most challenging aspects of the writer’s task.  But when it comes alive through vital, zig-zagging prose like Mark Binelli’s in Detroit City is the Place to Be (a Holiday 2012 Discover pick, now available in paperback, with a new afterward by the author), the results are unforgettable.  Because can’t get enough of Binelli’s wry reportage, he generously sent along this guest post for the Discover blog.