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Summer 2008 Issue
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Bob Shacochis is one of America’s most acclaimed storytellers. He’s a novelist, a short story writer and a literary journalist who “lives inside the story” in the tradition of the New Journalism popularized by Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson. A contributing editor at Outside, Shacochis played an influential role in transforming the publication from a rather pedestrian outdoor magazine into a breathtaking literary periodical. Shacochis, Jon Krakauer, Tim Cahill, Mark Bryant and Hampton Sides were part of the early vanguard of young writers and editors at Outside who became giants in the world of outdoor adventure writing. But Shacochis, like other New Journalists before him, has an insatiable curiosity about the people, places and peculiar events he encounters in everyday life. A longtime culinary aficionado, |
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Shacochis served as a cooking columnist for Gentleman's Quarterly magazine, writing the “Dining In” column. The column included food recipes ranging from grilled stuffed turkey for dysfunctional family holidays to lobster-asparagus sushi rolls. But the subplot of each column was always about his continuing love affair with his wife. The “Dining In” columns are collected in Domesticity, an innovative cookbook/essay collection. Shacochis is also a renowned war correspondent. He was sent by Harper’s magazine to tell the story of the uprising against Jean-Bertrand-Aristide and Operation Uphold Democracy, the United States government's official name for its 1994 occupation of the tiny Caribbean Island of Haiti. Shacochis traveled for nearly a year covering the invasion, living with a Special Forces team. The experience resulted in The Immaculate Invasion, Shacochis’ first full-length book of nonfiction. One reviewer proclaimed that The Immaculate Invasion “achieves an unsettling triumph of combat journalism that will earn…comparisons to other modern classics, such as Michael Herr's Dispatches.”
Shacochis is currently working on a sequel to Swimming in the Volcano, another novel in a planned trilogy.
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Easy in the Islands.
Shacochis’ fascination with the Caribbean runs deep – beginning with his first adventure to the islands as a Peace Corps volunteer. He won a National Book Award for Easy in the Islands, a collection of stories about topics like reggae bars established on tiny slivers of sand and characters meandering aimlessly through the warm waters and soft breezes of the Caribbean paradise.
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Swimming in the Volcano.
Shacochis published his first novel in 1993, Swimming in the Volcano. It was a Booklist Editors' Choice selection and a finalist for the National Book Award. Many critics consider Swimming in the Volcano a seminal work of fiction, mirroring the trenchant prose of Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene.
Shacochis is currently working on a sequel to Swimming in the Volcano, another novel in a planned trilogy.
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The Next New World.
A collection of short stories peopled by an often mysterious panoply of characters and related in a darkly comic voice.
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The Immaculate Invasion.
From the Pentagon's war room to the bitter infighting in the dangerously divided U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince and its on-again/off-again relationship with terrorists, Shacochis chronicles what the military calls OTW (other than war) Operations.
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