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Here's to Gerry Shapiro's new collection, Bad Jews, just out from Zoland Books —
cockeyed and deeply affecting stories that continue to explore the moral landscape of
his first colletion, From Hunger. The characters in Bad Jews are the true lost
tribe of Israel, with redemption and disaster around every corner.
Gerald Shapiro's From Hunger won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award. He is also editor of
American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories and is the recipient of both an NEA
Fellowship and the Pushcart Prize for Fiction. He lives in Lincoln with his wife, fiction
writer Judith Slater, where he teaches creative writing at the
University of Nebraska.
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"Gerry Shapiro's stories delight us, and make us squirm, in the ways that good writing, and
only good writing, can do." — Francine Prose
"Gerald Shapiro manages to pull off that rare feat of writing fresh, surprising stories that
are, at the same time, clearly informed by the long, rich tradition of Jewish-American
fiction. Short stories do not get any funnier or any sadder — any wiser or more
beautifully written than these simultaneously entertaining and heartbreaking stories."
— Marly Swick
"There's an oft-quoted thespian's line: Dying is easy, comedy is hard. As writers go,
one either has a comic gift or doesn't. Gerald Shapiro has it. For me, that rare combination
of comedy and emotion is the mark of a master. There's another oft-quoted line: Laughter
is good for the soul; do your soul a favor and read Bad Jews and Other Stories."
— Stuart Dybek
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