(via Josh Okrent):

“Hey Clark,”Thanks for the Kodak story. I was born and raised in Rochester and have a long and tangled history with the area’s #1 employer. Most of my parents’ friends worked for Kodak, and too many of their kids died young from cancers caused by Kodak’s shitty waste disposal practices.

“Allow me to recommend a great, and little read, novel about Kodak’s prescence in Rochester. It’s called The Lost Scrapbook, by Evan Dara, published in 1995 by FC2. It features a barely fictionalized Rochester called Springfield, but the strangenesses and horrors it discusses are all
too real. It made the rounds of all the literate-punk bookshelves in Rochester before being named by William Vollman as “winning manuscript” in the Normal, Illinois fiction contest. Anyhoo, look for it.”

I indeed have read The Lost Scrapbook, and heartily second Mr. Okrent’s recommendation.