Tag Archives: Bob Shacochis

The Next New World

“If we are in the golden age of the short story, Bob Shacochis is one of the writers who got us here.” —Providence Journal

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The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

“Engrossing . . . a soaring literary epic about the forces that have driven us to the 9/11 age . . . always so…

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Swimming in the Volcano

“Swimming in the Volcano provides a feast; it is a book heady with language and thick with story . . . [leaving] the reader…

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Kingdoms in the Air

Collected for the first time ever: thirteen of National Book Award winner and trailblazing war journalist Bob Shacochis’s travel and adventure essays that span…

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The Immaculate Invasion

“An unforgettable mixture of hard journalism and sharp commentary that captures much of the absurdity and futility of the 1994 American-led U.N. invasion of…

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Easy in the Islands

“[Shacochis’s] stories have an unselfconscious narrative momentum–a linear drive toward an ending–that I associate with the easy ways of an old master . ….

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