The Charles Bowden Reader
The author of twenty-six books, CHARLES BOWDEN has also been 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.