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. Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
B.J. Hollars is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He is the author of numerous books, including Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds (Nebraska, 2017), Go West, Young Man: A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail (Nebraska, 2021), Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country (Nebraska, 2019), Dispatches from the Drownings: Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction (New Mexico, 2014), This Is Only a Test, From the Mouths of Dogs: What Our Pets Teach Us about Life, Death, and Being Human (Nebraska, 2015), and Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America. Hollars is also the founder and executive director of the Chippewa Valley Writers Guild.
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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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