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Excellent piece!!!

Universal Truths Unspoken costs

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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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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...

It’s been two years now but if you haven’t read this you might like it or hate it

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🌽 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…

Give this a listen. cornholechampions.substack.com/p/art-cullen...

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.

Like I like to say. Right book at the right time open.substack.com/pub/theiowam... @douglaswburns.bsky.social

'These are vulgar times' Art Cullen on guns, church, water, immigration and hogs in America

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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Terrific piece on @artcullen.bsky.social new book. Thank you!

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.  We have foule...

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'These are vulgar times' Art Cullen on guns, church, water, immigration and hogs in America

Fantastic review. Thank you @phoebesaid.bsky.social

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Same as it ever was ... attaway & thataway No cheap writing solutions please

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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

'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 […]

Good piece on @artcullen.bsky.social and his new book in @littlevillage.bsky.social littlevillagemag.com/art-cullen-w...

'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.

The one and only @artcullen.bsky.social joined Talk of Iowa this week to talk about his new book.

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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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Book Review: 'Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest' by Art Cullen - Little Village 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 co...

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Piling Rocks sounds of memory, weight of silence

A bit on rocks and writing open.substack.com/pub/stevesem...

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.

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...

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 …

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 … - 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 …

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

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.

In my opinion my Mother’s Day post isn’t late at all. open.substack.com/pub/stevesem...

Under Lights & Open Air A sports story within a wishful world of imaginary purity & writing tips

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Single Wink Kindness Direct & inevitable, some words are hard to say & hear

Let me try and impart a wink or two of kindness your way: open.substack.com/pub/stevesem...

Crazy Little Thing Called Hate The cannibals are hungry & they're coming for our words: converge and collide.

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Thank you!!!! @artcullen.bsky.social thanks you too

High recommendations for Art’s work.

You can go read “Storm Lake” while you’re waiting for this one to come out.

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 | Coming September, 2025 We have fouled our nest over the past half century in a way...

The right book is arriving at the right time. September 28 we're releasing Pulitzer winner Art Cullen's new book "Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World" Here's the link to order early and get a signed copy! icecubepress.com/2025/02/03/w... @artcullen.bsky.social

A Bright Dynamite Creek Magic realism dawns its lovely cape and takes flight. A bit of truth buried where you'd least expect it. Fiction gone to fable.

A little magic realism to start your day.

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