Writing off the grid: Charles Bowden on Edward Abbey

(Santa Fe New Mexican) "He created a fairly unusual readership,” Charles Bowden writes of the author Edward Abbey. “Either people have never heard of him or have read everything he ever wrote.”
Bowden called the hunger to devour Abbey’s oeuvre the “B. Traven Syndrome,” referring to the cult following of the mysterious novelist who is most remembered for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1927). Continued