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Dispatches from the Drownings: Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction
Contributor(s): Hollars, B. J. (Author)

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 ISBN: 082635503X     ISBN-13: 9780826355034
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
OUR PRICE: $31.45  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Books & Reading
Dewey: 977.545
LCCN: 2014003245
Physical Information: 0.59" H x 8.06" W x 10.01" L (1.34 lbs) 216 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Table of Contents
 
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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 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. Charles Van Schaick's macabre, staged photographs from the era appear alongside the dispatches, further complicating the messiness of history and the limits of truth.

Contributor Bio(s): Hollars, B. J.: -

B. J. Hollars is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. His most recent book is Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa.
 
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