Midwestern Strange - Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country (Paperback)

Midwestern Strange chronicles B.J. Hollars’s exploration of the mythic, lesser-known oddities of flyover country. 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 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. 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 shows how grappling with such subjects might fortify us against the glut of misinformation now inundating our lives. 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.  

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2019
Authors:	B. J. Hollars
Dimensions:	216 x 140mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-4962-1560-4
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-4962-1560-5
Barcode:	9781496215604

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