Mike DeCapite is an American writer whose published work includes the novels Through the Windshield and Jacket Weather, the chapbooks Sitting Pretty and Creamsicle Blue, and the short-prose collection Radiant Fog.
[2] Excerpts from DeCapite's Through the Windshield first appeared in CUZ, a literary magazine edited by Richard Hell and published by the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, in New York.
In 2003 and 2004, while living in San Francisco, DeCapite wrote a personal-essay column for an arts magazine in Cleveland called angle.
The book is a love story, told in fragments, about Mike and June, who knew each other in 1980s New York and who get together in the city thirty years later.
You remember that something happened in a particular month or season but not necessarily what year," DeCapite told Shawn Mishak, in Cleveland Review of Books.
Through the Windshield was featured in the discussion of "Why Bob Dylan Matters" at an event sponsored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Case Western Reserve University, November 16, 2017.
[12] Palaima and fellow Classicist Paul Hay also did an entire event called Through the Windshield: Unseen People in Big Cities September 28, 2018 that featured readings (including from Through the Windshield) and songs that make us notice and care about overlooked people in cities spanning from ancient Rome to Cleveland in the third millennium.