America's most alarming writer : essays on the life and work of Charles Bowden / edited by Bill Broyles and Bruce J. Dinges.

Beginnings -- Over the rainbow / Peg Bowden -- On campus / David F. Allmendinger -- Taking history off campus / Charles Bowden -- Street signs with Lew Kreinberg and Charles Bowden / Barbara Houlberg -- Chuck becomes a reporter / Kathleen Dannreuther -- Let the tortoises roll / Norma Coile -- The Jimi Hendrix of journalism / Tony Davis -- Bowden's southwest -- Stand my watch / Kathie Lee -- Give light to the air / Molly McKasson -- How's my government? / Ray Carroll -- Discovering Chuck / Winifred J. Bundy -- Mr. southwest / Joseph C. Wilder -- Chuck's desert garden / Kassey Anderson -- Planting trees / Kim Sanders -- A man for all seasons / Phil Jordan -- Chuck Bowden in the twilight zone / Cal Lash -- The most fearless writer in America / Ken Sanders -- Publishing Chuck -- Writing in the moment / Melissa Harris -- The big kick: editing Chuck / Rebecca Saletan -- Of rock'n'roll and corn laws: a few words on Charles Bowden / Gregory McNamee -- Sketches of Chuck / Tim Schaffner -- Assembling a Bowden bibliography / Walt Barthlolmew -- Lessons from anger and love / Clara Jeffery -- Collaborators -- Interviewing a tire / Jake Dykinga -- Dickens, Melville, and Bowden / Michael Pl Berman -- Over the line / Alice Leora Briggs -- Heart's desire / Molly Molloy -- White, red, and black / Julián Cardona -- Traveling and not traveling with Chuck / Eugene Richards -- Trailing Bowden -- Bowden's need to walk / Judy Nolte Temple -- Bowden nails the door shut behind us / Todd Schack -- Muir, Abbey, Bowden / Mike Evans -- A desert evening with Chuck / Michael Lundgren -- The mesquite tree and the endless loop / Tom Sheridan -- Writers on Bowden -- America's most alarming writer / Jim Harrison -- He heard the music Scott Carrier -- Charles Bowden and La Santa Muerte / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The license plate said "Hayduke": Chuck Bowden and the red Cadillac-a memory / Luis Alberto Urrea -- Scratchboard opposites / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Drawn to the flames: Bowden and agee, expanding the boundaries of American nonfiction / William deBuys -- Wild gods of Mexico / Don Henry Ford Jr. -- Crossing the line / James Galvin -- The fountain theatre / Francisco Cantú -- Pure Bowden / William Langewiesche -- Street reporter on La Línea / Philip Caputo -- No one gets out alive / Richard Grant -- Coda -- Here stands a reporter / Tom Zoellner -- Packing Chuck's legacy / Mary Martha Miles -- Why we carry on / Alan Weisman -- I have had to make up my life as I went along / Charles Bowden.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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