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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)..
Hollars is an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
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By confronting monsters, Martians, and a cabinet of curiosities, we challenge ourselves to look beyond our presumptions and acknowledge that just because something is weird, doesn\'t mean it is wrong.
Hollars shows how grappling with such subjects might fortify us against the glut of misinformation now inundating our lives.
Part memoir and part journalism, Midwestern Strange offers a fascinating, funny, and quirky account of Flyover folklore that also contends with the ways such oddities retain cultural footholds.
Hollars\'s quest is not to confirm or debunk these mysteries but rather to seek out these unexplained phenomena to understand how they complicate our worldview and to discover what truths might be gleaned by reexamining the facts in our "post-truth" era.
The mysteries, ranging from bipedal wolf sightings to run-ins with pancake-flipping space aliens to a lumberjack-inspired "Hodag hoax," make this book a little bit X-Files , a little bit Ghostbusters , and a whole lot of Sherlock Holmes .
Hollars\'s exploration of the mythic, lesser-known oddities of Flyover country.
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