America's Most Alarming Writer: Essays on the Life and Work of Charles Bowden

A Collection Of Fifty Inspiring Reflections On The Life And Work Of Award-winning Writer Charles Bowden, With Contributors Who Include His Editors, Collaborators, And Admiring Writers--and A Coda From Bowden Himself.-- 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. Edited By Bill Broyles And Bruce J. Dinges. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.