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Podcast: Julie Gammack's Iowa Potluck
Episode: Come for the Corny, Stay for the Cancer Rates
Description: When Art Cullen Drops By…Pulitzer Prize–winner Art Cullen joined us to talk about his new book Dear Marty, We Crapped in Our Nest—and, true to form, he made us laugh while reminding us just how screwed up Iowa’s water, soil, and politics really are.Art confessed he never wanted to write a book again after New York publishers dismissed his “Corn Gospel” chapter as too provincial. (“Too provincial? Have they been to Iowa?”) But Steve Semken and Phoebe Wall Howard caught him at a weak moment, flattered his ego, and—bam—book dea...