Bad Jews and Other Stories

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 325, [1, blank]. Quarter-bound cream cloth over olive green paper boards, stamped in copper to spine. Brick-red endpapers.

A second short story collection by the author of From Hunger (1993). A comic vision of life, love, and spiritual adventurism among the determinedly secular class of contemporary American Jews. His stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Witness, The Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, Missouri Review, Quarterly West, and Southern Review, amongst other publications.

"Brimming with keen insight into the psyches of hilarious, even lovable, losers, the wacky brilliance of these remarkable stories marks Shapiro as a writer to watch." –Publishers Weekly, (starred review)