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B.J. Hollars

B.J. Hollars is the author of several books, most recently Dinosaur Dreams: A Father and Daughter in Search of America’s Prehistoric Past. He is the recipient of an Upper Midwest Emmy® award, the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Nonfiction, the Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize, and a Midwest Book Award Gold medal.
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    Now More than Ever, We Need “The Happiest Band on Earth”

    It’s a sentiment at the core of The 502s’ origin story. In 2015, Isola and a pair of cousins founded the band, and while they were searching for a name, Isola and one of the cousins (who happened to live…

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    A Travel Guide to the City of Ghosts

    Standing alone before the house, I think: love can be a sad, strange thing.

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    The Hermit and the Hawk

    As the morning progresses I become less interested in where Zirrer had lived, and more interested in what brought him here to begin with. Why, I wonder, does a man choose to opt out of the world?

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    Ungumming the Keys

    On the cusp of my 30th birthday and just days before the birth of our second child, I decide to do the practical thing and purchase a pair of nonfunctioning typewriters.

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    Fabricating Fear

    We searched for a lake monster on the shores of Lake Superior. This was sometime last July. My wife Meredith, son Henry, and I had headed north from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in the hopes that the vacation town of Duluth,…

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    Live Forever

    In September of 1932, just hours after his uncle’s funeral, twelve-year-old Ray Bradbury was walking down the familiar streets of Waukegan, Illinois when he spotted a carnival tent on the shores of Lake Michigan. The night prior, young Bradbury had…