The Next New World

by Bob Shacochis

A collection of short stories peopled by an often mysterious panoply of characters and related in a darkly comic voice

Genres: Short Stories

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Bob Shacochis is an American fiction writer and literary journalist.
He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.

Reviews

[Leo W. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed Easy in the Islands and, so, when I encountered this collection in a used book store, I was delighted. Found it less than satisfying. One had the sense that the author was experimenting with both style and content, but with marked success in some stories and less so in others.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

for the most part i was wowed. very rarely was i underwhelmed. in fact, in only one place was the whelming inadequate. the rest of the short stories were hyper-whelming. it's a mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad world. indeed.

[Bob · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are few writers who have produced sentences as sinuous and beautiful as Bob Shacochis. That said, this over 30 year old collection does not speak to that ability. A couple at the beginning are... ok? but the final half of the collection is clunker and clonker. Oh well. They can't all be winners.