Coming-of-Age Midwestern: A Reading with B.J. Hollars

Join University Wisconsin-Eau Claire professor B.J. Hollars as he reads from his debut short story collection, Sightings. Hailed by Kirkus Review as an "imaginatively sculpted collection," Hollars' stories seek to subvert the conventional Midwestern coming-of-age story.  He does so by featuring an assemblage of Bigfoot believers, Civil War reenactors, misidentified Eskimos, and grief-stricken clowns, among other outcasts incapable of situating themselves in their world.  For anyone who's ever suffered the injustice of a pimple on prom night, or a high school heartbreak, these absurdist stories are for you.