• B.J. Hollars is the author of several books, most recently Year of Plenty: A Family’s Season of Grief and Wisconsin for Kennedy: The Primary That Launched a President and Changed the Course of History. He as also published Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians and the Weird in Flyover Country, The Road South: Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders, and Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds. Hollars is the recipient of the Truman Capote Prize for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of Literary Nonfiction, the Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize, the Council of Wisconsin Writers’ Blei-Derleth Award, and the Society of Midland Authors Award. He is the founder and executive director of the Chippewa Valley Writers Guild, a columnist for the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, and an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

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On a sunny autumn morning in 2011, I found myself facing a room full of African-American literature students at the University of Alabama. I’d recently completed... Read more.