Past Speeches—“Virginia Festival of the Book, March 2007”, March 2007

This addition to the Charles Bowden archives includes complete manuscripts of Café Blood Some of the Dead are Still Breathing: Living in the Future, Exodus, Trinity, Inferno, Dreamland: The Way Out of Juarez, Fire In The Earth, Miss Sinaloa, Bowden Reader, Torch Song, and other articles featured in G. Q. Magazine and National Geographic. Other materials include a complete file of his book, magazine, and movie contracts; tax information; hand-written reporting notebooks; research and correspondence with long-time friend Bill Broyles; and photographs and information on Paul Dickerson and his memorial art museum founded by Barbara Houlberg. Artifacts range from two of Bowden’s treasured guns, memorabilia from Juarez, awards, to the ephemera on his desk at the time of his death. Also included in this accession is his library, which totals almost 400 books, bound reports, and anthologies, and several framed photographs that were hung in his house.