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Kingdoms in the air : dispatches from the far away
\"Best known for his sweeping international and political fiction narratives, including The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, which won the Dayton Peace Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Bob Shacochis began his writing career as a pioneering journalist and contributing editor for Outside magazine and Harper's. Kingdoms in the Air brings together the very best of Shacochis's culture and travel essays in one live-wire collection that spans his global adventures and his life passions; from surfing, to his obsession with the South American dorado, to the time he went bushwhacking in Mozambique. In the titular essay \"Kingdoms,\" the longest work in the collection, Shacochis ventures to Nepal with his friend, the photographer Thomas Laird, who was the first foreigner to live in Nepal's kingdom of Mustang as the forbidden Shangri-la prepared to open its borders to trekkers and trade. When the two men return a decade after Laird first lived there, Shacochis observes in brilliantly evocative prose both the current cultural and political landscape of the country and the changes with which his friend has to reconcile. Replete with Shacochis's signature swagger, humor, and crystalline wisdom, Kingdoms in the Air is a majestic and essential collection from one of our most important writers.\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Couple celebrate sensual delight and ecstasy of domestic, culinary nirvana
We share as Bob gives Miss F a diamond ring on their 14th anniversary and as Miss F gives Bob - well, he stops prudently, saying of her appearance, \"The shoes alone had the romantic capacity to make me bark.\" p(3); The Divine Miss F, Shacochis' significant other, holds a favorite food. Special to The News-Sentinel BOB SHACOCHIS Bob Shacochis wrote ''Domesticity.'' Special to The News-Sentinel BOB SHACOCHIS Domesticity: A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love (book cover not retained in library)
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Passionate travel to distant places
Samuel Beckett meets Jack London,\" as his dry-rotted raft sunk lower and lower, while he secretly sought to witness the river's rape for its caviar.He reports from Turkey's Mount Arafat (locked-down) and Erzurum (where wolves roam the college campus) on a test of his own stuffing.
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Books: Paperbacks
He singles out a verse which \"fulfils the highest objective of lyric writing... it takes the vague emotional mood of the music and makes it specific.\" And what are these golden words which mesh so gloriously with the music? \"I'm in the mood for love/Simply because you're near me/Funny but when you're near me/I'm in the mood for love.\" This magical combination was why the American musical achieved perfection in the 20th century. \"Mozart may have better music, Shakespeare better words,\" [Mark] Steyn writes, \"but only in the American musical play do we see the constituent elements fusing to create a unified, indissoluble identity.\" He contends that the great Rogers and Hammerstein shows like Oklahoma!, Carousel and South Pacific are \"trail-blazing... masterpieces\". However, he awards the palm for best musical to Gypsy, while downplaying Guys and Dolls. Steyn lauds the early Sondheim but savages Sunday in The Park... , though he is surprisingly easy on Andrew Lloyd Webber. But his cliched \"Broadway Hit Parade\" may not be above dispute - My Funny Valentine, You'll Never Walk Alone, Almost Like Being In Love, Mack the Knife; like the best musicals, this book gives you plenty to whistle on the way out CH
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HUMANITARIAN HORRORS IN HAITI
[Bob Shacochis] stayed behind when most of the journalists covering Clinton's highly publicized \"invasion\" left to cover the O.J. Simpson trial. He captures the voodoo-like images of this imbroglio dubbed \"Vietnam without the bullets\": a dying flamingo, doves of peace with wrung necks, a dancing funeral procession and Humvees armed for psychological warfare gliding through Haitian streets at three in the morning blaring Pink Floyd. In a stomach-churning scene, Shacochis tells of the jail in which prisoners stand in six inches of their own feces. Haiti was, and is, a comedy of terrors.
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Shacochis brings his own literary style to Spoleto
\"People who read 'The Bridges of Madison County' would find it totally unreadable. My God is language not money,\" [Bob Shacochis] said. And with somewhat tempered pride, he describes his usual style of writing as \"dense, layered, textured.\" Long before the literary community knew Shacochis, he was an agricultural journalist in the Peace Corps. \"The Marines killed 10 Haitian cops and one American soldier died violently during a spontaneous moment at a road block,\" Shacochis said.
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ESSAYS GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
Like the writer M.F.K. Fisher, whose luminous writing on food and life is clearly a model for Domesticity, [Bob Shacochis] really is at his best writing about food. Whether he is writing about being \"addicted to lunch,\" the history of breakfast, or how to eat mussels, he writes to communicate both hunger and its satisfactions to his reader. The recipes here are no mere literary addendums, but viable ones, mostly simple and elegant. The one for Mussels Chardonnay should work well to cook 40 or so mussels in olive oil, butter, bay leaf, and parsley.
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Cooking a singular art of expression
[Bob Shacochis] is at his stove in his cozy North Florida kitchen, speaking to a Lifetime cable TV crew about his new book, \"Domesticity: A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love\" (Macmillan, $23). And I'm nodding agreement in my living room, just off what a Realtor friend has called our \"step-saver\" kitchen. You'd call it small. I do. Shacochis sees cooking, like writing, as creative expression. He's accomplished at both, producing the likes of duck hash, grilled oysters and orange flan as well as delicious prose. His first short-story collection, \"Easy in the Islands\" (Penguin Books, 1985), won the National Book Award. \"Domesticity,\" which the peripatetic Shacochis describes as a \"diary of a life I never thought to keep,\" was compiled from the bimonthly \"Dining In\" columns he writes for GQ magazine. \"Here's the main difference between myself and Miss F.,\" Shacochis writes. \"It's gastronomic. Sad to say, left to her own devices, she eats girl food, the cuisine that ruined California; light pastas, fruits, grains. Her favorite meal is a thick steak, obscenely rare, with a neuromuscular twitch left in it, yet it seems without a boy around she backslides into a feeding pattern usually associated with the convent. . . . Am I a bad influence on Miss F.? Well, no more than she desires.\"
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