Charles Bowden

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January 01, 1945

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CHARLES BOWDEN’s journalism appears regularly in Harper’s GQ, and other national publications. He is the author of several previous books of nonfiction, including Down by the River.

In more than a dozen groundbreaking books and many articles, Charles Bowden has blazed a trail of fire from the deserts of the Southwest to the centers of power where abstract ideas of human nature hold sway — and to the roiling places that give such ideas the lie. He has claimed as his turf "our soul history, the germinal material, vast and brooding, that is always left out of more orthodox (all of them) books about America" (Jim Harrison, on Blood Orchid ).

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Average rating: 3.89 · 1,609 ratings · 290 reviews · 51 distinct works

	Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields 3.45 avg rating — 311 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family 4.01 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America 4.00 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin by Charles Bowden (Editor), Molly Molloy (Editor) 3.81 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Blue Desert 3.94 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from Underground 4.00 avg rating — 66 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Dreamland: The Way Out of Juarez by Charles Bowden, Alice Leora Briggs 4.18 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Future by Charles Bowden, Noam Chomsky (preface), Eduardo Hughes Galeano (Afterword) 4.22 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future 3.52 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior 3.79 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
― Charles Bowden

tags: death , juarez , mexico , seasons , summer

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“I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine; I insist on color.”
― Charles Bowden

tags: knowledge , truth

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“Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.”
― Charles Bowden

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