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In November 2020, B.J. Hollars answered a call from his father-in-law while teaching. "When will you be home?" Steve asked. "I have news." So began the Hollars family's year of plenty--a cancer diagnosis on top of the ongoing COVID pandemic, then feelings of falling short as parents, partners, and people. While Hollars traces his family's daily devastations alongside his father-in-law's decline, he recounts the small mercies along the way: bir...

The behind-the-scenes story of JFK's 1960 Wisconsin primary campaign When John F. Kennedy ran for president in 1960, he did something no candidate had done before: he leveraged the power of state primaries to win his party's nomination. Kennedy's first battleground state? Wisconsin--a state that would prove more arduous, more exhausting, and more crucial to winning the presidency than any other. Wisconsin for Kennedy brings to life the stories...

What have dogs done to earn the title of “man’s best friend”? B.J. Hollars attempts to find out with firsthand reports recounting a range of stories revealing much about our pets—and even more about the humans who share their lives.

In March of 2020, shortly after Wisconsin began receiving positive cases of COVID-19, writer and professor B. J. Hollars struck out to create a collaborative writing project to bridge the emotional distance created by way of our physical social distancing. Drawing upon Emily Dickinson's famous poem, "Hope Is The Thing with Feathers, " Hollars put out a call for Wisconsinites to reflect on their own glimpses of hope in the COVID-19 era. The gui...

B.J. Hollars and his young son strike out on a 2, 500-mile road trip to retrace the Oregon Trail. Their mission: to rediscover America—and Americans—along the way.

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A collection of short fiction centred around the theme of coming of age, with analytical and instructional essays and exercises by the authors, that offer fiction writers a guided tour of craft, as well as techniques for their own story writing.

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Provides a wide-ranging account of the University of Alabama's 1956 and 1963 desegregation attempts, as well as the little-known story of Tuscaloosa, Alabama's, own civil rights movement. B. J. Hollars focuses on Tuscaloosa's purposeful divide between 'town' and 'gown', providing a new contextual framework for this landmark period in civil rights history.

B.J. Hollars is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He is the author of several books including¿From the Mouths of Dogs: What Our Pets Teach Us About Life, Death, and Being Human, ¿Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, The Last Lynching in America and Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa, and¿Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct B...

B. J. Hollars is author of Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence and the Last Lynching in America and Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa. He is editor of You Must Be This Tall to Ride: Contemporary Writers Take You Inside the Story, Monsters: A Collection of Literary Sightings, and Blurring the Boundaries: Explorations to the Fringes of Nonfiction. He is Assistant Professor o...

In homage to Michael Lesy's cult classic, Wisconsin Death Trip, Hollars pairs reports from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century journalists with fictional versions, creating a hybrid text complete with facts, lies, and a wide range of blurring in between.

B. J. Hollars is author of two award-winning nonfiction books, Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence and the Last Lynching in America and Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa, as well as Sightings (IUP, 2013) and Dispatches from the Drownings: Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction. He is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.