The brazen knife attack, hatched during a Bible study, was orchestrated by the Skinners’ adopted daughter, Tia, when she was 17.

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It’s not every day that you see a political candidate kayaking down the Des Moines River, paddling for votes. But that’s what Chris Jones, Democratic candidate for Iowa secretary of agriculture, was d...

When the summer goes spring for a moment & how language is silent and noisy at once.

Speaking With Manny, Weather, and Shadow Puppets

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Screams, whispers, and writing advice.

Screams, whispers, and writing advice.

forget about centers, find the edges, "edge effects"

Hiding, seeking, and putting in the time for luck.

the sound of one hand clapping, William Blake, & things made of maybe

Art Cullen is the editor and co-owner with his brother John of the Storm Lake Times Pilot, a weekly newspaper in that Northwest Iowa county seat – a town of about 12,000. He has a lot to say to and ab...

Art Cullen is the editor and co-owner with his brother John of the Storm Lake Times Pilot, a weekly newspaper in that Northwest Iowa county seat – a town of about 12,000. He has a lot to say to and ab...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Art Cullen says agricultural issues like water pollution and cancer risk could sway the midterm elections.

Sounds of Silence, Ignorance, Fear, Voting Mythic, & Mulling Jazz

What's true? "Don't it always seem to go/That you don't know what you've got/Till it's gone."

YouTube video by Robert Leonard

A lengthy confession on the sincerity of words, authors, generosity, poems, writing, and publishing.

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a

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...

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...

Sorrows, Regrets; Mimsy, Toves, & Writing

Unspoken costs

Podcast Episode · The Gist · 10/31/2025 · 32m

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...

Toss some bags about Iowa’s petrochemical farm economy… the hollowing out of our small towns… And the politics of pollution and power…

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.

Art Cullen on guns, church, water, immigration and hogs in America

Art Cullen on guns, church, water, immigration and hogs in America

No cheap writing solutions please

“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 […]

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.

Pulitzer-prize winner Art Cullen Laments the Decline of Small Town Iowa in Latest Book

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...

sounds of memory, weight of silence

Art Cullen's new book is written in the folksy and entertaining style that won him the 2017 Pulitzer Prize.

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 …

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 …

Writing tip: only share when the time is right, but when you do, do so with all the sincerity you can muster.

A sports story within a wishful world of imaginary purity & writing tips