Stephen Bodio

Latest by Stephen Bodio in Chronicles

• Reviews

  November 1994

  Reimagining a River

  In 1944, a party of German prisoners-of-war escaped from a camp in Phoenix, armed with old maps and with the intention of stealing a boat and sailing to Mexico. When they saw the "pitiful trickle" that is the modern Gila, they began to hike downstream in despair and were soon rounded up.

  Read More

• Reviews

  July 1993

  Airs, Waters, Places

  I might say at the onset that I am usually not a big fan of anthologies, though I have edited one; most end up unwieldy grab bags of vaguely related material.

  Read More

• Reviews

  October 1992

  Das Kowpital

  It's hard to know where to begin to respond to Jeremy Rifkin's apocalyptic new book, Beyond Beef. You could start with Chesterton's famous remark on "believing anything," or some of the paleoconservative ruminations on "Gnosticism."

  Read More

• Correspondence

  November 1991

  Ranchwomen, Life, and Literature

  As far as I know, my friend Sissy has never written anything, although she probably reads more widely than most people I know with graduate degrees. She's at first and probably second glance an archetypical ranchwoman.

  Read More

• Correspondence

  August 1990

  At the Golden Spur

  It was Saturday, the day before Earth Day in the Golden Spur Bar in Magdalena, and one of our always-informal meetings of DUCA and DUWA was in progress.

  Read More

• View

  February 1988

  Why Souls Fly Away

  Don't ask me, was my first thought. The last parrot I owned was—I swear—killed 10 years ago by an ex-friend who, with Joseph Krutch, believed that hunting was the ultimate evil.

  Read More