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This collection features twenty genre-bending essays from today's most renowned teachers and writers. These essays experiment with structure, style, and subject matter, and each is accompanied by the writer's personal reflection on the work itself, illuminating his or her struggles along the way. Readers also receive a practical approach to craft thanks to the unique writing exercises provided by the writers themselves.
Creative nonfiction. --- American prose literature --- Fourth genre (Creative nonfiction) --- Literary nonfiction --- Narrative nonfiction --- Nonfiction, Creative --- Nonfiction, Literary --- Nonfiction, Narrative --- Prose literature --- American literature
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B. J. Hollars's debut short story collection offers ten thematically linked tales, all of which are out to subvert conventional notions of the midwestern coming-of-age story. The stories feature an assemblage of Bigfoot believers, Civil War reenactors, misidentified Eskimos, and grief-stricken clowns, among other outcasts incapable of finding a place in their worlds. In these marvelous stories, we can join a family on a very 21st-century trip along the Oregon Trail, watch as a boy builds a brother from a vacuum cleaner, follow a sandlot baseball team as it struggles to overcome an invasion
Bildungsromans. --- Social isolation --- Outcasts --- Apprenticeship novels --- Bildungsroman --- Bildungsromane --- Coming of age --- Coming-of-age novels --- Entwicklungsromane --- Erziehungsromane --- Fiction --- Brigands and robbers --- Ethnology --- Outlaws --- Middle West --- American Midwest --- Central States --- Central States Region --- Midwest --- Midwest States --- Midwestern States --- North Central Region --- North Central States --- Mississippi River Valley --- Northwest, Old --- Social life and customs
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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 G
Civil rights movements --- College integration --- Civil liberation movements --- Liberation movements (Civil rights) --- Protest movements (Civil rights) --- Human rights movements --- College desegregation --- Desegregation in higher education --- Integration in higher education --- Education, Higher --- School integration --- Universities and colleges --- History. --- University of Alabama --- University of Alabama System --- Alabama. --- Alabama University --- UA (University of Alabama) --- University of Alabama System.
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Short stories, American. --- American short stories --- American fiction
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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.
Drowning --- Drowning victims --- Victims of drowning --- Dead --- Victims --- Accidents --- Asphyxia --- Death --- Violent deaths --- Press coverage --- Causes --- Eau Claire Region (Wis.) --- History --- Wisconsin --- Beʼekʼidtaʼ Hahoodzo --- Oyiskonsin --- Shtat Viskonsyn --- Steat Wiskonsin --- Uiskonsin --- Uisqonsin --- Uisukonshin --- Uisukonshin-shū --- US-WI --- Visconsinia --- Viskonsėns --- Viskonsin --- Viskonsina --- Viskonsinas --- Viskonsino --- Viskonsyn --- Weisikangxin --- Weisikangxin Zhou --- WI --- Wikonekina --- Wis. --- Wisc. --- Wisconsene --- Wisconsin suyu --- Wisconzin --- Wiskonnsenn --- Wiskonsan --- Wiskonsiin --- Wiskonsin --- Wiskonsin Shitati --- Ουισκόνσιν --- Уисконсин --- Штат Вісконсин --- Висконсин --- Вісконсин --- Вісконсін --- וויסקאנסין --- ויסקונסין --- ウィスコンシン --- ウィスコンシン州 --- 威斯康辛 --- 威斯康辛州 --- Wisconsin Territory
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Civil rights movements --- African Americans --- Segregation in transportation --- Civil rights workers --- Civil rights demonstrations --- Freedom Rides, 1961 --- Civil rights activists --- Race relations reformers --- Social reformers --- Freedom marches (Civil rights) --- Sit-ins (Civil rights) --- Demonstrations --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Discrimination in transportation --- Transportation --- History --- Civil rights --- Segregation --- Southern States --- Race relations --- Black people
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Dogs --- Dog owners --- Human-animal relationships --- Animal-human relationships --- Animal-man relationships --- Animals and humans --- Human beings and animals --- Man-animal relationships --- Relationships, Human-animal --- Animals --- Owners of dogs --- Pet owners --- Canis canis --- Canis domesticus --- Canis familiarus --- Canis familiarus domesticus --- Canis lupus familiaris --- Dog --- Domestic dog --- Domestic animals --- Gray wolf
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Extinct birds. --- Birds --- Avian extinctions --- Bird extinctions --- Extinction of birds --- Extinction (Biology) --- Extinct birds --- Birds, Extinct --- Extinct vertebrates --- Extinction. --- Extinction
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Lynching --- Violence --- Racism --- History --- Donald, Michael, --- Maddox, Vaudine, --- Ballard, Gene, --- Alabama --- Mobile (Ala.) --- Birmingham (Ala.) --- Tuscaloosa (Ala.) --- Race relations
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