B J Hollars: 10 books
From the Mouths of Dogs
What Our Pets Teach Us about Life, Death, and Being Human
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
What is it that dogs have done to earn the title of “man’s best friend”? And more broadly, how have all of our furry, feathered, and four-legged brethren managed to enrich our lives? Why do we love them? What can we learn from them? And why is it so difficult to say good-bye? Join B.J. Hollars...
Flock Together
A Love Affair with Extinct Birds
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
After stumbling upon a book of photographs depicting extinct animals, B.J. Hollars became fascinated by the creatures that are no longer with us; specifically, extinct North American birds.
How*,* he wondered, could we preserve so beautifully on film what we’ve failed to preserve in life?
And...
by B.J. Hollars
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
On April 27, 2011, just days after learning of their pregnancy, B. J. Hollars, his wife, and their future son endured the onslaught of an EF-4 tornado. There, while huddled in a bathtub in their Alabama home, mortality flashed before their eyes. With the last of his computer battery, Hollars began...
by B.J. Hollars
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Join B.J. Hollars as he takes readers on a whirlwind tour of destruction: from Fort Wayne’s almost-obliteration at the hands of Adolf Hitler, to Tuscaloosa’s 2011 tornado, and finally, to a triple lynching that occurred in Duluth in the summer of 1920. Spanning nearly a continent and a century, Hollars...
The Road South
Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Revisits the inspiring and heroic stories of the Freedom Riders, through their own words.
In May 1961, despite multiple Supreme Court rulings, segregation remained alive and well within the system of interstate travel. All across the American South, interstate buses as well as their travel facilities...
Dispatches from the Drownings
Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Disturbed by stories of drownings in the river behind his home in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, writer B. J. Hollars combed the archives of local newspapers only to discover vast discrepancies in articles about the deaths. In homage to Michael Lesy’s cult classic, Wisconsin Death Trip, Hollars pairs reports...
Opening the Doors
The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Opening the Doors is 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.
Whereas E. Culpepper Clark’s The Schoolhouse Door remains the standard history of the...
Sightings
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
B. J. Hollars’s debut short story collection offers ten thematically linked tales, all of which are out to subvert conventional notions of the Midwestern coming-of-age story. The stories feature an assemblage of Bigfoot believers, Civil War reenactors, misidentified Eskimos, and grief-stricken clowns,...
Thirteen Loops
Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
*Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America *recounts the story of three innocent victims, all of whom suffered violent deaths through no fault of their own: Vaudine Maddox in 1933 in Tuscaloosa, Sergeant Gene Ballard in 1979 in Birmingham, and Michael Donald in 1981 in Mobile.
The...
You Must Be This Tall to Ride
Contemporary Writers Take You Inside The Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Compelling stories have the power to generate infinite wonder: It's nearly impossible to imagine how the author began, and yet we sense there's much more beyond the final word. It's this mysterya combination of inspiration and craft, smoke and mirrorsthat makes writing feel momentous. But it can...