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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.
Contents
Foreword by Jim Harrison Introduction by the Editors Part I Coming to Arizona, from Arizona Highways Bats, from Blue Desert Speech Excerpt from North Dakota Geological Conference Excerpt from Killing the Hidden Waters Snaketime, from Wild Earth Excerpt from Inferno Part II One Thing in Common: Sadness, from the Tucson Citizen Excerpt from "Using Our Children for Sex," from the Tucson Citizen Rape, from the Tucson Citizen Torch Song, from Harper's Part III Excerpt from the 2008 Photography Exhibit "The History of the Future" While You Were Sleeping, from Harper's Don Francisco Must Be Stopped, from USA Today Excerpt from Exodus Outback Nightmares and Refugee Dreams, from Mother Jones Part IV Excerpt from Shadow in the City The Pariah, from Esquire Ike and Lyndon, from Harper's Extraordinary Rendition Epilogue on Edward Abbey The Bone Garden of Desire, from Esquire Part V Letter to Barbara Houlberg Excerpt from Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing Excerpt from Desierto: Memories of the Future Excerpt from Blues for Cannibals Excerpt from Killing the Hidden Waters Excerpt from Blood Orchid Excerpt from Blues for Cannibals Excerpt from Desierto: Memories of the Future Excerpt from Inferno Afterword: Excerpt from Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing
