Coming Soon … Poetic, beautiful, meditative, and informative. Through short writings and photographs, enter a conversation to inspire new understandings of the Midwestern tallgrass prairie …Read more… […]
The Great Gamble: At What Price? A Thriller Novel #thebiggestsecretinamerica David L. Bluder with an Epilogue by Congressman James Leach $19.99 | gate-fold paper | 390p | Isbn 9781948509138 | Sports Betting | Thriller Novel Legendary sports journalist Bob Ryan via Twitter: “Want a good read? A different read? Try David Bluder’s ‘The Great Gamble,’ about […]
Clubfoot: The Quest for a Better Life for Millions of Children tells the little-known story of the world’s most common skeletal birth defect and development of a revolutionary […]
K. L. Cook | ISBN 9781948509121 | 88p | $16.95 | Poetry I await the muse, which has come thus far in the form of odd profundities, half-baked theories, lost soliloquies, and promises of greater fluency— assuming I’m reading the signs rightly and not just hopefully. “Located in the tradition of the dramatic monologue, Lost […]
K. L. Cook | ISBN 9781948509114 | 302p | $21.95 | Short Stories “The collection ends with a definitive bang, and demonstrates how, in an excellently crafted story collection, the whole is always more than the sum of its parts. Cook’s Marrying Kind delivers just as much complexity and nuance as any novel, while providing […]
Fresh and far-ranging, these timely commentaries illuminate an important paradox: how, as the population living on the land plummets, the popularity of agrarianism rises anew. […]
A deep dive into the Midwest experience through thought-provoking poems, recollections, essays, and vivid stories. Pondering nature and neighbors, bars and commutes […]
In a highly imaginative blend of film locations, memories, and colorful travel essays, Robin Holabird offers an extensive and entertaining exploration of film locations far and wide, close to home […]
We rarely accept one book at a time, so when we accepted three new books by one author you know something BIG is happening. This fall (2019) we’re releasing three new books by K.L. Cook Marrying Kind, a collection of stories; Lost Soliloquies, poems; and The Art of Disobedience, essays. K. L. Cook is the […]
RECOMMENDED READING FOR IOWA HISTORY by The Iowa State Historical Society Iowa, the Definitive Collection gathers for student, teacher, researcher, and leisure reader alike a rich harvest of Iowa lore as told by a bevy of its most famous and forgotten voices—Iowa history as made and told by Iowans, for Iowans. Totaling over 500 browsable […]
488 p | 978-1888160901 | 24.95 Fracture is a Midwest Connections Pick. Quality books recommended by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association and reviewed in the Chicago Tribune This book bears witness to hydraulic fracturing in the United States. Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America brings together the voices of more than fifty […]
… Voices after Evelyn seeks not so much to dig up a cold case—the 1953 disappearance of La Crosse, Wisconsin, babysitter Evelyn Hartley—as reopen its heart. A fugue of voices …“Read more… […]
… At the crossroads of two cultural icons exists Jay G. Sigmund, born in Waubeek, Iowa. As the Regionalist movement was in full swing guess who had an enormous influence on well-known artist… Read more… […]
$19.99, 202p, Isbn 9781948509022 NEW: Interview with Betty Moffett at Midwest Gothic NEW: Review of Coming Clean in Flyway “In Coming Clean, Betty Moffett pays homage to the power of storytelling, revealing the glimmer and grit that ripple beneath the stoic exterior of rural America. In prose that’s as clean and inviting as a fresh-swept […]
Voices After Evelyn is being released in concert with this limited-edition artist’s book entitled 53 Lines. Iowa artist and poet Julie Russell-Steuart (Caveworks Press) was commissioned by Maintenance Ends to take a 53-line excerpt from Harsch’s novel and explore the mystery of Evelyn’s disappearance through a unique “tetra tetra flexagon” structure, also known as “Jabob’s Ladder.” […]
Miriam’s Well: A Modern Day Exodus Fiction | Jewish Studies | Spirituality | Food | Travel | Isbn 9781888160970 | $21.99 | 586p | Preorder Now! Check out Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg’s author website for events and more information. In this modern day retelling of the Exodus, Miriam wanders the political and spiritual desert of a changing […]
