Maintenance Ends Press

14/04/2020

Our sister press Riverboat Books is offering free downloads of some of its best titles, including our own Rick Harsch's Skulls of Istria. And the excellent and timely Night of the Long Goodbyes by Erick Martiny is a $5 download.

13/04/2020

Maintenance Ends author Rick Harsch has embarked on a master class writers series via YouTube. Part parody and all-Harsch, our Slovenian sage's musings from inside the Corona bunker will have your creative juices flowing.

Follow these simple instructions and greatness will flow from your pen or desquamate from your pencil.

18/03/2020

For fans of literary mysteries, true crime and The Midwest. Check out this great new video review and then order the book from our website: https://icecubepress.com/2018/07/10/voices-after-evelyn/

A look at Rick Harsch's 2018 novel, Voices after Evelyn, from the midwestern Maintenance Ends Press. https://www.riverboatbooks.com/skulls-of-istria https://...

09/08/2019

North American Review reviews "Voices After Evelyn." Signed copies at www.icecubepress.com

06/06/2019

Little Village Mag reviews "Voices After Evelyn" (see pg 45 of the virtual edition here). Jon Burke gives the literary true crime novel by Rick Harsch its due and writes that the companion artist book by Julie Russell-Steuart "serves as a perfect tactile companion to the novel, adding depth to an already gripping story and finding real beauty in the face of something so awful as the disappearance of Evelyn Hartley.”

Both available at www.icecubepress.com

Tune in to Little Village issue 265. This Pride Month marks the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, and a group of Grinnell College students and their professor are seeking to preserve Iowa’s own LGBTQ history by recording and publicizing more than 50 (and counting) interviews with LGBTQ Iowans. The st...

19/04/2019

North American Review reviews "Voices After Evelyn." Still some signed copies at www.icecubepress.com

And and don't miss the NAR 50-year celebration this weekend in Cedar Falls. https://www.facebook.com/events/327093317836291/

Rick Harsch, Voices After Evelyn, Maintenance Ends Press, 2018, 264 pgs, $19.95

06/03/2019

25/01/2019

7 p.m. tonight at Prairie Lights Bookstore the final reading for The WAPSIPINICON ALMANAC. This year marks the 25th and final edition of the beloved journal. Tim Fay will host the event joined by several contributors to the new issue – Erika Billerbeck, Kelley Donham, Avery Gregurich, Steve Maravetz, David Miller, and John Peterson.

Tim Fay, proprietor of the Route 3 Press in rural Anamosa, has edited and published The Wapsipinicon Almanac – roughly annually – using antique letterpress technology, since 1988. Each issue is a mix of fiction, reviews, essays, poetry, art and practical information, packaged in the format and feel of an old-time almanac.

“Part New Yorker, part Farmers’ Almanac, this magazine should silence anyone who thinks Iowa doesn’t have a literary culture.” —Joshua Kucera

https://www.prairielights.com/live