Ice Cube Press / Steve Semken
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Passionate fly fisher and long-time indie book publisher. Using the literary arts to better understand the Midwest since 1991. Subscribe on substack. Order at icecubepress.com
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The latest from Art Cullen, one of the indispensable journalistic voices. "We Crapped In Our Nest" - Ice Cube Press icecubepress.com/2025/05/03/w...
We Crapped In Our Nest - Ice Cube Press
Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World | Art Cullen | $20 | 192p | ISBN 9781948509633 This is the right book at the right time. Read it. Share it. Use it. Art on The Gi...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The latest from Art Cullen, one of the indispensable journalistic voices. "We Crapped In Our Nest" - Ice Cube Press icecubepress.com/2025/05/03/w...
The substack column I do on writing advice takes a fabulist/magic-realism twist this time (I hope) open.substack.com/pub/stevesem...
Higher Than The Sky Gang
Sorrows, Regrets; Mimsy, Toves, & Writing
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November 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The substack column I do on writing advice takes a fabulist/magic-realism twist this time (I hope) open.substack.com/pub/stevesem...
Excellent piece!!!
Government policies reward and compensate too much corn that needs too much fertilizer which runs off into too many streams and rivers and eventually kills too many people.
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Universal Truths
Unspoken costs
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November 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Excellent piece!!!
If you didn't think @artcullen.bsky.social was for real you will now @piperformissouri.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Universal Truths
Unspoken costs
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November 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
If you didn't think @artcullen.bsky.social was for real you will now @piperformissouri.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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Art Cullen on Iowa's Corn Gospel, Cancer, and Capture
Podcast Episode · The Gist · 10/31/2025 · 32m
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October 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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It’s been two years now but if you haven’t read this you might like it or hate it
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The Swine Republic - Ice Cube Press
Takes a long hard look at the science, politics, culture, and economics of Iowa agriculture and the state’s degraded waters and connects the dots for everyone who wonders why progress toward improveme...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It’s been two years now but if you haven’t read this you might like it or hate it
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Give this a listen. cornholechampions.substack.com/p/art-cullen...
🌽 Art Cullen: How big Ag broke Iowa... and what comes next - Cornhole Champions #44
Toss some bags about Iowa’s petrochemical farm economy… the hollowing out of our small towns… And the politics of pollution and power…
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October 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Like I like to say. Right book at the right time open.substack.com/pub/theiowam... @douglaswburns.bsky.social
With alarm-clock urgency and breathtaking clarity, Art Cullen's new book tells us the rent is due for Iowa, the nation, and democracy itself
With a rare sense of place, a know-it-when-you-see-it Iowa-ness, Art Cullen’s roaring new book is nothing short of an unsparing mirror for 3.3 million of us in the state.
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October 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Like I like to say. Right book at the right time open.substack.com/pub/theiowam... @douglaswburns.bsky.social
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Art Cullen's book went into a second printing after just 14 days.
Email in response to review below:
"Totally F**ing Fantastic and brilliantly written ..."
~ J. Gabrielsen of Ann Arbor, MI
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"Totally F**ing Fantastic and brilliantly written ..."
~ J. Gabrielsen of Ann Arbor, MI
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'These are vulgar times'
Art Cullen on guns, church, water, immigration and hogs in America
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October 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Art Cullen's book went into a second printing after just 14 days.
Email in response to review below:
"Totally F**ing Fantastic and brilliantly written ..."
~ J. Gabrielsen of Ann Arbor, MI
phoebewallhoward.substack.com/p/these-are-...
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Email in response to review below:
"Totally F**ing Fantastic and brilliantly written ..."
~ J. Gabrielsen of Ann Arbor, MI
phoebewallhoward.substack.com/p/these-are-...
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Terrific piece on @artcullen.bsky.social new book. Thank you!
Art Cullen runs a tiny newspaper in the corner of Iowa and his standing-room-only book tour is attracting hundreds of people who spill into hallways. The book went into its second printing after 14 days.
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'These are vulgar times'
Art Cullen on guns, church, water, immigration and hogs in America
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October 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Terrific piece on @artcullen.bsky.social new book. Thank you!
'These are vulgar times'
Art Cullen on guns, church, water, immigration and hogs in America
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October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
A new substack on writing, magic and surprise open.substack.com/pub/stevesem...
Same as it ever was ... attaway & thataway
No cheap writing solutions please
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October 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A new substack on writing, magic and surprise open.substack.com/pub/stevesem...
Wow 100s & 100s showed up for @artcullen.bsky.social today at the Iowa City Book Festival apologize for those out in the hallways. Thank you #Iowa His new book is hitting a nerve with folks
October 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Wow 100s & 100s showed up for @artcullen.bsky.social today at the Iowa City Book Festival apologize for those out in the hallways. Thank you #Iowa His new book is hitting a nerve with folks
Good piece on @artcullen.bsky.social and his new book in @littlevillage.bsky.social littlevillagemag.com/art-cullen-w...
'We're on a knife's edge': Art Cullen chides Reynolds' meanness, Big Ag's death grip on Iowa land and livelihoods - Little Village
“When I was a kid in the 1960s, you could drive from Carroll to Storm Lake, and see cattle lining green hills the entire way,” Art Cullen said in a […]
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October 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Good piece on @artcullen.bsky.social and his new book in @littlevillage.bsky.social littlevillagemag.com/art-cullen-w...
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The one and only @artcullen.bsky.social joined Talk of Iowa this week to talk about his new book.
Check it out >> www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk... @steveicecubepress.bsky.social @thestormlaketimes.bsky.social @iowapublicradio.org
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'We crapped in our nest' a conversation with Art Cullen
The editor and co-owner of the Storm Lake Times Pilot discusses his new book, Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World.
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October 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The one and only @artcullen.bsky.social joined Talk of Iowa this week to talk about his new book.
Check it out >> www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk... @steveicecubepress.bsky.social @thestormlaketimes.bsky.social @iowapublicradio.org
Check it out >> www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk... @steveicecubepress.bsky.social @thestormlaketimes.bsky.social @iowapublicradio.org
Check out this interview with @artcullen.bsky.social on his new book @wvik.bsky.social www.wvik.org/podcast/hear...
Pulitzer-prize winner Art Cullen Laments the Decline of Small Town Iowa in Latest Book
Pulitzer-prize winner Art Cullen Laments the Decline of Small Town Iowa in Latest Book
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September 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Check out this interview with @artcullen.bsky.social on his new book @wvik.bsky.social www.wvik.org/podcast/hear...
A bit on rocks and writing open.substack.com/pub/stevesem...
Piling Rocks
sounds of memory, weight of silence
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September 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A bit on rocks and writing open.substack.com/pub/stevesem...
It’s coming Pulitzer winner @artcullen.bsky.social new book. Check out this review by Lyle Mueller in the The Gazette www.thegazette.com/books/book-r...
Book Review: Art Cullen's new book continues tossing barbs
Art Cullen's new book is written in the folksy and entertaining style that won him the 2017 Pulitzer Prize.
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September 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
It’s coming Pulitzer winner @artcullen.bsky.social new book. Check out this review by Lyle Mueller in the The Gazette www.thegazette.com/books/book-r...
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Here’s a column of slutty self promotion for my forthcoming screed.
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I may be vulgar, but this is a rank pile of … - Storm Lake Times Pilot
Please excuse my slutty self-promotion, but a book by Art Cullen will be released in late September. Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World is scheduled to be …
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August 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Here’s a column of slutty self promotion for my forthcoming screed.
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New book coming. . www.chronicletimes.com/stories/i-ma...
I may be vulgar, but this is a rank pile of … - The Cherokee Chronicle Times
Please excuse my slutty self-promotion, but a book by Art Cullen will be released in late September. Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World is scheduled to be …
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August 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
New book coming. . www.chronicletimes.com/stories/i-ma...
Some days it’d be easier to be working 9-5. The requests and not hearing back from people gets to you as an #entrepreneur
August 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Some days it’d be easier to be working 9-5. The requests and not hearing back from people gets to you as an #entrepreneur
In my opinion my Mother’s Day post isn’t late at all. open.substack.com/pub/stevesem...
Huffs, Puffs & A Mother's Day Tribute
Writing tip: only share when the time is right, but when you do, do so with all the sincerity you can muster.
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June 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
In my opinion my Mother’s Day post isn’t late at all. open.substack.com/pub/stevesem...
Another combination writing advice and story up on substack. Hopefully you’ll all read it to the end open.substack.com/pub/stevesem... Ice Cube Press LLC Midwestern Independent Book Publisher
Under Lights & Open Air
A sports story within a wishful world of imaginary purity & writing tips
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June 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Another combination writing advice and story up on substack. Hopefully you’ll all read it to the end open.substack.com/pub/stevesem... Ice Cube Press LLC Midwestern Independent Book Publisher
Let me try and impart a wink or two of kindness your way: open.substack.com/pub/stevesem...
Single Wink Kindness
Direct & inevitable, some words are hard to say & hear
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May 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Let me try and impart a wink or two of kindness your way: open.substack.com/pub/stevesem...