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 mystery–a combination of inspiration and craft, smoke and mirrors–that makes writing feel momentous. But it can also feel overwhelming, causing us to become small, scared, not quite ready for the "big" rides, such as finishing that story, that novel, and finding the courage to share it with the world.
In You Must Be This Tall to Ride, you'll find 20 works of fiction and nonfiction by...
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 muc...
Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in Americarecounts 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 death of Vaudine Maddox--and the lynchings that followed--serves as a cautionary tale about the violence that occurred in the same region nearly fifty-years later, highlighting the cowardice, ignorance, and happenstance that sustained a culture of racial intolerance far into the future....
Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in Americarecounts the story of three innocent victims, all of whom suffered violent deat...
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 University of Alabama s desegregation, in Opening the Doors 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. The image of George Wallace s stand in the...
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 st...
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, WisconsinDeathTrip, 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...
Disturbed by stories of drownings in the river behind his home in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, writer B. J. Hollars combed the archives of local newspape...
