“The way I was trained, reporters went toward the story, just as firemen rush toward the fire. It is a duty. As it happens, I am a coward and would rather write about a bird or a tree. But, I don’t know how to be aware of such a slaughter and not report it.”
Charles Bowden is back with another book about the contradictions and struggles of the U.S.-Mexico Border, Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields and he talks to The Book Bench about it.
And no he hasn’t read 2666.
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murder city is unlike any non-fiction book i’ve ever read. I think it’s because mr. bowden’s mind has been warped by time spent in that hell hole of ciudad juarez. man, we’re living in a post-apocalyptic world.
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