Table of Contents

• Foreword by Jim Harrison
• Introduction by the Editors
• Part I
  • Coming to Arizona, from Arizona Highways
  • Bats, from Blue Desert
  • Speech Excerpt from North Dakota Geological Conference
  • Excerpt from Killing the Hidden Waters
  • Snaketime, from Wild Earth
  • Excerpt from Inferno
• Part II
  • One Thing in Common: Sadness, from the Tucson Citizen
  • Excerpt from "Using Our Children for Sex," from the Tucson Citizen
  • Rape, from the Tucson Citizen
  • Torch Song, from Harper's
• Part III
  • Excerpt from the 2008 Photography Exhibit "The History of the Future"
  • While You Were Sleeping, from Harper's
  • Don Francisco Must Be Stopped, from USA Today
  • Excerpt from Exodus
  • Outback Nightmares and Refugee Dreams, from Mother Jones
• Part IV
  • Excerpt from Shadow in the City
  • The Pariah, from Esquire
  • Ike and Lyndon, from Harper's
  • Extraordinary Rendition
  • Epilogue on Edward Abbey
  • The Bone Garden of Desire, from Esquire
• Part V
  • Letter to Barbara Houlberg
  • Excerpt from Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing
  • Excerpt from Desierto: Memories of the Future
  • Excerpt from Blues for Cannibals
  • Excerpt from Killing the Hidden Waters
  • Excerpt from Blood Orchid
  • Excerpt from Blues for Cannibals
  • Excerpt from Desierto: Memories of the Future
  • Excerpt from Inferno
• Afterword: Excerpt from Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing

Promotional Information

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

About the Author

The author of twenty-six books, Charles Bowden (1945–2014) was also a contributing editor for GQ, Harper's, Esquire, and Mother Jones. His best-known work focuses on the U.S.-Mexico border, which engrosses him because it is a trip wire for issues—migration spawned by global inequality, the rise of stateless criminal cartels—that will shape the twenty-first century.

Erin Almeranti is a writer, editor, and teacher living in Tucson.

Mary Martha Miles, a college English instructor, radio disk jockey, and writer, is a longtime friend of Charles Bowden.

Jim Harrison is the author of thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He has recently published The Farmer's Daughter and In Search of Small Gods, a book of poems. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.