The Next New World

Charged with wit and style . . . Intelligent, engaging, and richly realized.” -New York Times Book ReviewIf we are in the golden age of the short story, Bob Shacochis is one of the writers who got us here.” -Providence JournalShacochis's stories are immensely beguiling, peopled with memorable characters conveyed in kock-your-socks-off prose. To enter this . . . collection is to be led into a mansion of the storyteller's art.” -NewsdayThese stories are filled with compassion, sweet and vivid moments, wry, dark humor . . . verse and voice.” -San Francisco ChronicleShacochis's assets as a writer-his quick reportorial eye, his ear for contemporary speech, his instinctive sympathy for tough, inarticulate lives . . . Mr. Shacochis locates a colony of dreamers reluctant to barter their hopes. -Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesA remarkable storyteller . . . From such daring and craft comes prose capable of both fantastic revelation and familiar observations.” -PeopleShacochis is an inventive storyteller, sensitive to the land and to the past . . . He plays the full range of language.” - Milwaukee JournalShacochis seduces his readers into the alien territories he has made his own.” - Detroit NewsRich and sensual, intensely imagined stories . . . by a writer who can both enchant and teach.” -Houston ChronicleShacochis is a master of voices. . . . In The Next New World he roams about through history and across the globe, tethering his wit to a sense of political conscience. . . . Sometimes more is more.” -Miami HerladShacochis's writing shines.” -Baltimore SunThere is an up-to-the-minute wildness about this writer. . . . He has the ability to sketch a character in a line . . . and his sentences are a marvelous, rare combination of clarity and richness.” -L.A. Daily NewsShacochis juxtaposes the comic with the poignant, the beautiful with the grotesque, serenity with sudden violence. . . . Some writers strive for years to develop an individual voice, a style they can call their own. Shacochis is already the swashbuckling master of many voices, all of them compelling.” -Orlando SentinelEach story in this collection is well-written; each commands its own new world.” -Washington PostBob Shacochis writes literature with a capital 'L.'” -Winston-Salem JournalBob Shacochis has been true to his title and set out for new territory. . . . The Next New World is an altogether illuminating book.” -Cleveland Plain DealerThe best stories in The Next New World are not cluttered with experimentalism and are so fine they will undoubtedly be anthologized for decades.” -Dallas Morning NewsShacochis is one of the very best writers of short ficition-and since this is the Golden Age of the American short story, that is saying a lot.” -Minneapolis Star & TribuneThese are stories to give us strength. . . . Shacochis is an old-fashioned storyteller, with a mimic's ear for dialogue and accent.” -Philadelphia Inquirer