Charles Bowden

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Dreamland

The Way Out of Juarez

University of Texas Press

This striking work of graphic journalism pairs previously unpublished creative nonfiction by Charles Bowden with provocative scratchboard drawings by Alice Leora Briggs to create a vignette of daily life in Juárez, Mexico, in all its surreal brutality and

  • Copyright year: 2010
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The Charles Bowden Reader

By Charles Bowden; Edited by Erin Almeranti and Mary Martha Miles; Introduction by Jim Harrison
University of Texas Press

With excerpts from his major books—Blue Desert, Desierto: Memories of the Future, Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals, A Shadow in the City, Trinity, and Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing—as well as prominent magazine articles and early journalism, this anthology gathers the best and most representative writing from Charles Bowden’s entire career

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Red Line

By Charles Bowden; Introduction by James Galvin
University of Texas Press

Red Line powerfully conveys a desert civilization careening over the edge—and decaying at its center.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Desierto

Memories of the Future

By Charles Bowden; Introduction by William deBuys
University of Texas Press

A forerunner of Charles Bowden’s acclaimed books about the harsh life in the Southwestern borderlands, Desierto offers seven essays that combine the lore of the gypsy scholar, the incantatory power of a prose shaman, and the bracing cussedness of the old-style American maverick.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Blood Orchid

An Unnatural History of America

University of Texas Press

The first book in Charles Bowden’s “Unnatural History of the United States” sextet, Blood Orchid is a dizzying excavation of the violence and corruption at the roots of American society.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Blues for Cannibals

The Notes from Underground

By Charles Bowden; Introduction by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
University of Texas Press

The second book in Charles Bowden’s “Unnatural History of the United States” sextet, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac rumination on our hunger for self-consumption and destruction as a species.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing

Living in the Future

University of Texas Press

The third book in Charles Bowden’s “Unnatural History of the United States” sextet, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing continues to interrogate humanity’s destructive actions and responsibilities as we move further into the twenty-first century.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Mezcal

University of Texas Press

A reissue from the author of Blue Desert and The Red Caddy that charts the disintegration of the land, the loss of friends to drugs, and the decline of American innocence.

  • Copyright year: 1988
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Killing the Hidden Waters

University of Texas Press

The costs and limits of using natural resources, demonstrated through a simple example: water.

  • Copyright year: 1985
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The Red Caddy

Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey

University of Texas Press

The first literary biography of Edward Abbey in a generation, this thoughtful memoir serves as a meditation on the writing life, the cult of readers, reputation, and the literary afterlife of a well-known writer.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Desert Duty

On the Line with the U.S. Border Patrol

By Bill Broyles and Mark Haynes; Introduction by Charles Bowden
University of Texas Press

Covering a fifty-year span of law enforcement, Desert Duty reveals the patriotic sense of duty and compassionate calling that motivates the men and women who guard the borders of the United States.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Sonata

University of Texas Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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