“I am a Holocaust survivor, and every survival story is unique. What makes mine unique is that I was fortunate enough to be on ‘Schindler’s List.’” These are the words of Celina Karp Biniaz, one of youngest to be included […]
Waterloo Cedar Falls Symphony: Between Bach and the Blues GBPAC Great Hall, Cedar Falls, Thursday, May 26 at 7 p.m., $6.75-55.75 The third week of November, 1936. Thanks to a brief story on National Public Radio, illustrator Gary Kelley learned […]
I met David Hamilton, author of A Certain Arc: Essays of Finding my Way (Ice Cube Press), at a local Iowa City coffee shop in February of 2020, before the world began to social distance and wear masks due to […]
Steve Semken founded Ice Cube Press in 1991, when he was living in Lawrence, Kansas. “I’d been working a series of jobs I hadn’t anticipated, like most of us need to do,” Semken said in an email, “and it was during a break at work that I wandered into the nearby Indie bookstore, picked up a copy of a Wendell Berry book […]
Reading with Fracture co-editor Taylor Brorby and contributors Tyler Priest, John Kenyon and Amy Weldon Prairie Lights — Sat., Mar. 26, 7 p.m. On Saturday a reading at Prairie Lights will feature the editors and a few of the contributors […]
“The only remark of nature is its silence, but that is not because the world around us has nothing to say. It is because we come unequipped with ears to hear.” — Paul Gruchow, Journal of a Prairie Year Since […]
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