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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Broyles, Bill, 1944 July 9- editor.

Dinges, Bruce J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bowden, Charles, 1945-2014.

Bowden, Charles.

Authors, American--20th century.

Authors, American.

Physical Description:

337 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2019.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781477319901

1477319905

OCLC:

1089270730