Ice Cube Press Books

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 […]

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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. […]

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A deep dive into the Midwest experience through thought-provoking poems, recollections, essays, and vivid stories. Pondering nature and neighbors, bars and commutes […]

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… 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… […]

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… 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… […]

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$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 […]

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Historical Fiction | Paperback | $19.99 | 272 pgs | Isbn 9781888160956 | Ethel Barker In times of trouble one can count on the Heartland for inspiration, lessons, peace, love, and understanding. For the Andersen family, life on the family farm near the small Iowa town of Eden was like its namesake-—paradise. They happily accepted […]

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