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09/30/2025

https://www.radioiowa.com/2025/09/30/new-art-cullen-book-delves-deeper-into-iowas-water-quality-woes/

The northwest Iowa journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for his editorials about the state’s water pollution problem is releasing a new book that’s highly critical of Iowa’s agricultural practices and the partisan political climate that allowed it to happen. Art Cullen, editor and co-...

09/28/2025

Check out this interview with Art Cullen on his new book with Robin Johnson on Heartland Politics on WVIK, Quad Cities NPR

Pulitzer-prize winner Art Cullen Laments the Decline of Small Town Iowa in Latest Book

09/27/2025

The fall releases keep coming (there are more to come). We have a wonderful new collection on Paul Johnson edited by Curt Meine. Paul is hard to describe easily. He spoke plainly and in detail about his policy work in Iowa and the Midwest, but also about the finer points of his own farm, its soils and water, and his family’s grazing and cropping practices. You can order copies direct at: https://icecubepress.com/2025/02/12/we-can-do-better/

09/26/2025

As we humans say. The new Cullen book is getting real. Review in Little Village Mag

Being an Iowan has been difficult for those of us who love our home and are horrified by its policies. Art Cullen, in his new book Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest (Ice Cube Press), lays bare the complicated web of events that made it this way...

09/26/2025

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Art Cullen's new book, "Dear Marty, We Crapped in Our Nest," features the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper man's "exacting observations, philosophy and sarcasm, all written in a breezy, entertaining way that gives him status among his most avid followers as Iowa's resident sage," according to a review in the Cedar Rapids Gazette by Lyle Muller. Hear Cullen read from and discuss the book at the Iowa City Book Festival at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 11, at the Iowa City Public Library.
https://www.thegazette.com/books/book-review-art-cullens-new-book-continues-tossing-barbs/

09/23/2025

It's not just me who thinks Art Cullen's new book is good. So does Ro Khanna “There’s truly no voice like Art’s in American journalism. From his perch in Storm Lake, Iowa, he has spent decades capturing the soul of rural America with rare honesty, heart, and clarity. This book is both a personal journey through Art’s memories and a mirror for so many who will see their own experiences reflected in his words. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of our country.” – Congressman Ro Khanna Get your copy now and beat the rush.

Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World | Art Cullen | $20 | 192p | ISBN 9781948509633 | Coming September, 2025 “Art Cullen is a great journalist–and this is a great account of what the biggest crisis in human history looks like from the most fertile farmland on [......

09/20/2025

It’s coming Pulitizer winner Art Cullen’s new book. Check out this review by Lyle Muller in the The Gazette

Art Cullen's new book is written in the folksy and entertaining style that won him the 2017 Pulitzer Prize.

09/19/2025

Roy Behrens has some nice events coming up in Cedar Falls. Here's a short but informative informative interview with Sara Shannon https://chas.uni.edu/langlit/resources/north-american-review/interview-roy-behrens plenty of time to plan to attend.

Roy R. Behrens is a UNI Emeritus Professor of Art & Graphic Design and a former art editor of the North American Review. He is also the author of the new essay collection, Dreams of Fields: Memory Traces of Iowa's Pa

09/18/2025

Many of you have started ordering, but if not, what are you waiting for? The new Art Cullen books were just wheeled off the 16-wheeler, I'm taking them off the pallets now. Get those early orders in the next few days and I'll see to it that you get a signed copy. Only place to get a now is https://icecubepress.com/2025/05/03/we-crapped-in-our-nest/ Support Local Publishing and Local Journalism all at once!

09/02/2025

Just unwrapped! There are a few more days to pre-order and get a signed copy of John Price's latest book Goethe's Oak. WRITING FROM THE perspective of the legendary Goethe’s Oak, John T. Price reimagines and honors the life of an extraordinary tree. Drawing on centuries of human remembrances, from the tree’s namesake, writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, to prisoners at Buchenwald in the 1940s,

Order direct at: https://icecubepress.com/2025/02/10/goethes-oak-a-holocaust-story

Catch one of his upcoming readings:
-Prairie Lights Bookstore. Iowa City, IA: September 12, 2025
-Bookworm Bookstore. Omaha, NE: September 21, 2025
-Ames Writers Collective. Ames, IA: October 9, 2025.
-Beaverdale Books. Des Moines, IA: October 10, 2025.
-Creative Writing Forum. Metro Community College. Omaha, NE: October 25, 2025.
-Mount Marty University (Lecture and Classroom Visits). Yankton, SD. November 3, 2025.
-Larksong Writers House. “Writers in Conversation” series with Jim Reese. Lincoln, NE. November 20.

05/16/2025

Another post on the trials of becoming an author

Direct & inevitable, some words are hard to say & hear

05/02/2025

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: Things are always happening outside- the first wren, the first morel, spring peepers, and those autumn leaves going orange. We're happy to bring this Iowa Nature Calendar/Logbook of Iowa Nature back to print. Write your observations year after year on the inside, or get a new copy each year and savor the patterns and your observations? The artwork is outstanding, and the notes inside are a reminder of all that's happening under the beautiful Iowa sky. Order for you or a friend: https://icecubepress.com/2025/02/12/iowa-nature-day-book/