Bob Shacochis

Bob Shacochis (born September 9, 1951) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary journalist.

His first short-story collection, Easy in the Islands, was published in 1985 and received the National Book Award in category First Work of Fiction.

A longtime culinary aficionado, Shacochis served as a cooking columnist for GQ magazine, writing the "Dining In" column, which combined often humorous anecdotes with recipes.

He is a contributing editor at Outside magazine, and was instrumental, along with other literary journalists recruited by then-editor Mark Bryant, including Jon Krakauer, Tim Cahill, and Bruce Barcott, in establishing Outside's popular and critical success.

Shacochis's nonfiction generally fits into the tradition of the New Journalism popularized by Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, and Hunter S. Thompson in the 1960s and 1970s.