B.J. Hollars explores the mythic Midwest—from bipedal wolf sightings to run-ins with pancake-flipping aliens, among other oddities—not to confirm or debunk the mysteries of flyover country but to understand how they complicate our worldview in our “post-truth” era.
B.J. Hollars explores the mythic Midwest—from bipedal wolf sightings to run-ins with pancake-flipping aliens, among other oddities—not to confirm or debunk the mysteries of flyover country but to understand how they complicate our worldview in our “post-truth” era.
B. J. Hollars is an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He is the author of The Road South: Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders, Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds (Nebraska, 2017), and From the Mouths of Dogs: What Our Pets Teach Us about Life, Death, and Being Human (Nebraska, 2015).
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Author’s Note Prologue: My Year of Living Strangely Part 1. Monsters Case File #1. The Beast of Bray Road: 1936–Present Case File #2. Oscar the Turtle: March 1949 Case File #3. Mothman: November 15, 1966–Present Part 2. Martians Case File #4. Joe Simonton’s Space Pancakes: April 18, 1961 Case File #5. The Minot Air Force Base Sighting: October 24, 1968 Case File #6. The Val Johnson Incident: August 27, 1979 Part 3. The Weird Case File #7. The Hodag: 1893–Present Case File #8. Project ELF: 1968–2005 Case File #9. The Kensington Runestone: 1362(?)–Present Epilogue: And So Concludes My Year of Living Strangely Sources Selected Bibliography
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Author’s Note Prologue: My Year of Living Strangely Part 1. Monsters Case File #1. The Beast of Bray Road: 1936–Present Case File #2. Oscar the Turtle: March 1949 Case File #3. Mothman: November 15, 1966–Present Part 2. Martians Case File #4. Joe Simonton’s Space Pancakes: April 18, 1961 Case File #5. The Minot Air Force Base Sighting: October 24, 1968 Case File #6. The Val Johnson Incident: August 27, 1979 Part 3. The Weird Case File #7. The Hodag: 1893–Present Case File #8. Project ELF: 1968–2005 Case File #9. The Kensington Runestone: 1362(?)–Present Epilogue: And So Concludes My Year of Living Strangely Sources Selected Bibliography
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