"I will make bold to say that Bowden is America's most alarming
writer. Just when you think you've heard it all you learn you
haven't in the most pungent manner possible. . . . With The Charles
Bowden Reader in hand you get a taste of it all, and any literate
resident or visitor should want this book. It will lead them back
to a close, alarming reading of the entire oeuvre. It is to ride in
a Ferrari without brakes. There's lots of oxygen but no safe way to
stop. . . . Read him at your risk. You have nothing to lose but
your worthless convictions about how things are." -Jim Harrison,
from the foreword From his first book, Killing the Hidden Waters,
to his most recent, Murder City: Cuidad Juarez and the Global
Economy's New Killing Fields, Charles Bowden has been sounding an
alarm about the rapacious appetites of human beings and the
devastation we inflict on the natural world we arrogantly claim to
possess. His own corner of the world, the desert borderlands
between the United States and Mexico, is Bowden's prime focus, and
through books, magazine articles, and newspaper journalism he has
written eloquently about key issues roiling the border-drug-related
violence that is shredding civil society, illegal immigration and
its toll on human lives and the environment, destruction of fragile
ecosystems as cities sprawl across the desert and suck up the
limited supplies of water. This anthology gathers the best and most
representative writing from Charles Bowden's entire career. It
includes excerpts from his major books-Killing the Hidden Waters,
Blue Desert, Desierto: Memories of the Future, Blood Orchid,Blues
for Cannibals, A Shadow in the City, Inferno, Exodus, and Some of
the Dead Are Still Breathing-as well as articles that appeared in
Esquire, Harper's, Mother Jones, and other publications. Imbued
with Bowden's distinctive rhythm and lyrical prose, these pieces
also document his journey of exploration-a journey guided, in large
part, by the question posed in Some of the Dead Are Still
Breathing: "How do we live a moral life in a culture of death?"
This is no metaphor; Bowden is referring to the people, history,
animals, and ecosystems that are being extinguished in the
onslaught of twenty-first-century culture. The perfect introduction
to his work, The Charles Bowden Reader is also essential for those
who know him well and want to see the whole panorama of his
passionate, intense writing.
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