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Hill’s nonfiction has appeared in Wired, ESPN the Magazine, Poets & Writers, and the New York Times Book Review. It was published worldwide in 30 languages. Nathan Hill’s bestselling debut novel The Nix was named the #1 book of the year by Audible and Entertainment Weekly, as well as one of the year’s best books by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Slate, Amazon , and many others. “I Made This For You: A Novelist Writes a Mother’s Day Gift “Novak Djokovic’s Moment of True Greatness” “Postcard From the Pandemic: A Solid Little Feeling” “Game On: The Overwatch Videogame League Aims to Become the New NFL” “This Novel Opens With a Suicide and a Suitcase of Cash. “Nathan Hill on The Nix, Satirizing the Media, and Capturing the Absurdity of America in Fiction” “Fictional Facts: In an age of fake news and ‘alternative truths,’ novels like Nathan Hill’s ‘The Nix’ are striking a chord” “Nathan Hill in Conversation with John Irving”Ī chat with John Irving at the International Festival of Authors “With Debut Novel ‘The Nix,’ Author Nathan Hill Finds Success After Years of Struggle” What pushes this novel into Great American Novel territory may be its rare audacity in insisting that even amidst all of the anxieties of contemporary times…we remain capable of righting the wrongs of the past, if we have the courage to rediscover one another. Not since the 19 double-header of John Updike’s In the Beauty of the Lilies and Philip Roth’s American Pastoral has a novel emerged that presents a more comprehensive and perceptive portrait of the personal and political American psyche than Nathan Hill’s wise, rueful, and scathingly funny début. This looks to be the debut of an important new writer, able to variously make readers laugh out loud while providing a melancholy, resonant tale. Reading “The Nix” was an experience of complete unadulterated pleasure. I loved it on the first page as powerfully as I did on the last.…Nathan Hill? He’s gonna be famous. The Nix is hugely entertaining and unfailingly smart, and the author seems incapable of writing a pedestrian sentence or spinning a boring story. The Nix won the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the Los Angeles Times The Nix was a finalist for the NBCC Leonard Award for Best Debut of the Year The Nix was named one of the best books of the year by

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