America's Most Alarming Writer : : Essays on the Life and Work of Charles Bowden / / ed. by Bill Broyles, Bruce J. Dinges.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Allmendinger, David F.,; Anderson, Kasey,; Bartholomew, Walt,; Berman, Michael P.,; Bowden, Charles,; Bowden, Peg,; Briggs, Alice Leora,; Broyles, Bill,; Bundy, Winifred J.,; Cantú, Francisco,; Caputo, Philip,; Cardona, Julián,; Carrier, Scott,; Carroll, Ray,; Coile, Norma,; Dannreuther, Kathleen,; Davis, Tony,; Dinges, Bruce J.,; Dykinga, Jack,; Evans, Mike,; Ford Jr, Don Henry,; Galvin, James,; Grant, Richard,; Harris, Melissa,; Harrison, Jim,; Houlberg, Barbara,; Jeffery, Clara,; Jordan, Phil,; Langewiesche, William,; Lash, Cal,; Lee, Katie,; Lundgren, Michael,; McKasson, Molly,; McNamee, Gregory,; Miles, Mary Martha,; Molloy, Molly,; Nabhan, Gary Paul,; Richards, Eugene,; Saletan, Rebecca,; Sanders, Ken,; Sanders, Kim,; Schack, Todd,; Sheridan, Tom,; Silko, Leslie Marmon,; Temple, Judy Nolte,; Urrea, Luis Alberto,; Weisman, Alan,; Wilder, Joseph C.,; Zoellner, Tom,; deBuys, William,
• HerausgeberIn: Broyles, Bill,; Dinges, Bruce J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

The author of more than twenty books and a revered contributor to numerous national publications, Charles Bowden (1945–2014) used his keen storyteller’s eye to reveal both the dark underbelly and the glorious determination of humanity, particularly in the borderlands between the United States and Me...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• BEGINNINGS
• Over the Rainbow
• On Campus
• Taking History Off Campus
• Street Signs with Lew Kreinberg and Charles Bowden
• Chuck Becomes a Reporter
• Let the Tortoises Roll
• The Jimi Hendrix of Journalism
• BOWDEN’S SOUTHWEST
• Stand My Watch
• Give Light to the Air
• How’s My Government?
• Discovering Chuck
• Mr. Southwest
• Chuck’s Desert Garden
• Planting Trees
• A Man for All Seasons
• Chuck Bowden in the Twilight Zone
• The Most Fearless Writer in America
• PUBLISHING CHUCK
• Writing in the Moment
• The Big Kick: Editing Chuck
• Of Rock ’n’ Roll and Corn Laws: A Few Words on Charles Bowden
• Sketches of Chuck
• Assembling a Bowden Bibliography
• Lessons from Anger and Love
• COLLABORATORS
• Interviewing a Tire
• Dickens, Melville, and Bowden
• Over the Line
• Heart’s Desire
• White, Red, and Black
• Traveling and Not Traveling with Chuck
• TRAILING BOWDEN
• Bowden’s Need to Walk
• Bowden Nails the Door Shut behind Us
• Muir, Abbey, Bowden
• A Desert Evening with Chuck
• The Mesquite Tree and the Endless Loop
• WRITERS ON BOWDEN
• America’s Most Alarming Writer
• He Heard the Music
• Charles Bowden and La Santa Muerte
• The License Plate Said “Hayduke”: Chuck Bowden and the Red Cadillac—A Memory
• Scratchboard Opposites
• Drawn to the Flames: Bowden and Agee, Expanding the Boundaries of American Nonfiction
• Wild Gods of Mexico
• Crossing the Line
• The Fountain Theatre
• Pure Bowden
• Street Reporter on La Línea
• No One Gets Out Al
• CODA
• Here Stands a Reporter
• Packing Chuck’s Legacy
• Mary Martha Miles
• I Have Had to Make Up My Life As I Went Along
• Acknowledgments
• Copyright and Credits
• Index