With a rare sense of place, a know-it-when-you-see-it Iowa-ness, Art Cullen’s roaring new book, Dear Marty, We Crapped in Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World, is nothing short of an unsparing mirror for 3.3 million of us in the state. With still-night whispers of truth and bar-fight ferocity this western Iowa newspaperman reveals the masquerade-ball leadership that’s turned so many of Iowa’s once-warm communities into furnaces of justified grievance and misdirected outrage.