Dispatches from the Drownings

Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
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Author: B. J. Hollars ISBN: 9780826355041
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Publication: September 1, 2014
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press Language: English
Author: B. J. Hollars
ISBN: 9780826355041
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication: September 1, 2014
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Language: English

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, 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. Charles Van Schaick’s macabre, staged photographs from the era appear alongside the dispatches, further complicating the messiness of history and the limits of truth.

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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, 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. Charles Van Schaick’s macabre, staged photographs from the era appear alongside the dispatches, further complicating the messiness of history and the limits of truth.

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