Press & Reviews

The Atlantic Wire: These are books you should read this summer

Publishers Weekly: “Young shines a spotlight on a broken city and the efforts of those desperate to save it, but this is also the story of a man confronting a crisis of identity and finding hope where there seemed to be none.”

New York Times: Faded Glory

Slate: Why I want to buy a house in Flint, Michigan

Next City: Holding out for past glories in Gordon Young’s Teardown

Slate: The incredible shrinking American City

Times Higher Education: Small sparks of hope for Flint

Washington Independent Review of Books: A love-poem to arson-prone, deindustrialized Flint

New York Journal of Books: Identity, romance, and sorrow

American City & County Magazine: Learning to accept addition by subtraction

Belt Magazine: Sticking with Flint

ArchNewsNow: A conversation with Gordon Young

MSU Public Radio: Flint expat writes on returning home

CounterPunch: The human cost of deindustrialization

Lost Coast Review: What does “genuine citizenship” look like?

WKAR: “Teardown” author reflects on his work after Detroit bankruptcy

Santa Clara Magazine: Sparks from Flint

Next City: Expensively shrinking cities

CARS 108: Gordon Young blends humor, sensitivity in Flint book

NBC 25: Television interview with Joel Feick

WFNT 1470: Radio interview with Jason Cooper

Flint Journal: A conversation with Teardown author Gordon Young