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… […]
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 […]
… The Way of Nile C. Kinnick Jr.: Insights, Images, and Stories of Iowa’s 1939 Heisman Trophy Winner. 2018 marks the hundredth anniversary of one of Iowa’s most notable native sons. Read more… […]
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 […]
A Certain Arc follows Hamilton through a university career where he encounters and participates in the culture of writers and writing. Beginning with “Hometown,” which portrays his origins, […]
… 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 […]
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 […]
9781888160161, 100 pgs Order Direct | Read the Des Moines Register feature story | Coming this April, 2017: In this collection of essays, poems, and drawings from his own personal journals, Bruce Hopkins reflects on the truth and beauty in nature, concentrating on how important it is to listen to the voices of nature, and […]
